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I used to work for an IT services firm. I looked after HPUX/AIX/Solaris/Linux/BSD systems. I often worked alongside the Windows specialists. My observation was
by GianFabien 5y ago
I used to work for an IT services firm. I looked after HPUX/AIX/Solaris/Linux/BSD systems. I often worked alongside the Windows specialists. My observation was that the Windows environment required substantially greater amount of attention and was more susceptible to disturbances.
Having said that the environment you describe seems to be exceptionally flaky. I suspect that there are probably some serious misconfiguration issues, possibly some poor quality or resource constrained hardware, bad power (e.g. working in an industrial environment without UPS, power conditioners). Incorrect Windows licensing for servers can sometimes be an issue. I have seen environments that were incorrectly installed and configured causing significant issue.
Why did the person before you leave?
- xupybd 5y agoYeah I'm sure there are lots of miss configuration issues. It is an industrial environment without proper power conditioners, air conditioners or dust filtration. The guy before me was an external contractor. I was hired as the business grew to the point they wanted and internal developer. I'm putting out more IT fires than doing development. I have no Windows administration experience. I'm slowly sorting problems out but being a team of one means things move slow. There is a lot to learn as well.