A Title To Replace "Systems Administrator"? 709
sjanich writes "A discussion has begun at SAGE on an updated title to replace "Systems Administrator". I figure more sysadmins are reading Slashdot than are reading SAGEwire. Rob Kolstad of SAGE wrote: 'What in the world do we call the collective group of those people who make computers work properly? I'm not talking about users, and I'm not talking about software developers. I am thinking of: system administrators, LAN administrators, network administrators (both kinds!), security administrators, e-mail administrators, desktop support groups, database administrators, and all the other kinds of support that keep the IT function of an institution running -- what is this huge group called?' My favorite options are "Computer Infrastructure Practitioner" or "Computer Infrastructure Specialist". The original discussion can be found here at SAGEwire."
Re:You call them... (Score:2, Informative)
Here they are called... (Score:2, Informative)
Yuioup
Minitel Lingo (Score:2, Informative)
Interestingly, French is a very rigid language and doesn't allow for new or invented words very easily. However, there was a term that was widely used to describe those very people:
SysOp = System Operator
Ironically, Microsoft seems aware of this fact as the web address sysop.com is registered to them.
Re:I recommend the following Scale (Score:2, Informative)
not necessarily true - my old job our senior system engineer was 27 - and I would put his technical knowledage of unix against just about anyone. Age does mean something, but if they started young enough they can still have plenty of experience (in his case, going on 11 years of using/tuning unix)