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Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy

Originally a Math/Physics graduate who couldn't cut it in his own field, Paul Murphy (a pseudonym) became an IT consultant specializing in Unix and related technologies after a stint working for a DARPA contractor programming in Fortran and APL. Since then he's worked in both systems management and consulting for a range of employers including KPMG, the government of Alberta, and his own firm. In those roles he's "been there and done that" for just about every aspect of systems management and operation.

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A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.
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  • Who does client-server serve?

    By Paul Murphy | August 7, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    On the surface one of the oddest things about a large client-server operation that grew from an earlier 327X style system is that they didn’t meet their SLA terms then, and don’t now -...

  • The real meaning of the service level agreement

    By Paul Murphy | July 31, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    I believe that outsourcing It is almost always wrong - but it has its uses if you want someone else to take the hit for forcing IT management change.

  • Measurement vs. Perception

    By Paul Murphy | July 24, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    Sometimes an IT performance problem has nothing to do with computers or applications - but the general rule holds: if you can’t measure it, you don’t understand it and you can’t...

  • Consulting Reality: change at Canada's newspapers

    By Paul Murphy | July 17, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    A recipe for failure: dedicated, long term, experts with long resumes, high billing rates, and zero applicable hands on experience.

  • Depressing jobs advice

    By Paul Murphy | July 10, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    If you assume the worst part of the recession is yet to come and you’re an IT manager what should you do? Go into survival mode with project freezes, lay-offs, and promotions for the...

  • The IT dirty bomb

    By Paul Murphy | July 3, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    We pretend, as a figure of speech, that computers can catch viruses - they can’t; but they can harbor parasites and there’s more than one way those can destroy your business.

  • The top eight things the PC press hides about the iPad

    By Paul Murphy | June 26, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    Why do so many Wintel “professionals” hate the iPad? To paraphrase Nixon -when you have them by the wallet, their hearts and minds tend to follow

  • Suicide by victory: more on SCO

    By Paul Murphy | June 19, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    I was clearly wrong in predicting that the jury would find for SCO - but the fallout from the verdict is likely, I think, to be both worse for Linux and more surprising than anything, except the...

  • Virtual Reality Thinking

    By Paul Murphy | June 12, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    It’s too soon to comment on the SCO decision - so, instead, a thought or two on systems as language.

  • Thinking about recommenders

    By Paul Murphy | June 5, 2010, 12:15am PDT

    Perhaps the most interesting thing about google as a content recommendation engine is that it leads directly to the internet echo chamber effect - and that there’s probably not a lot we can...

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