Learning to handle a digital life
Plain and simple: I am a geek and I know it. In my office at home, I have currently 5 different computers running on different operating systems. One lets me play around with SuSE Linux, one for Windows XP testing, my main development machine (desktop), my main development server and an iBook to look at the online world from the alternative Mac world.
Today technology is more diverse than ever and you need to develop a certain pace, if you want to be on top of things. About 15 years ago, there were 3, maybe 4 small worlds of computer usage. The “consumer world” with office and games (PC, Commodore and one or the other Atari) and on the other side the business world (Unix and Mainframe setups).
There was not soooo much to learn to handle one or the other aspect of computers, but that changed with software. Nowadays you have 10, maybe 15 worlds to build up knowledge. Marketing and technology are closer together than ever. The once boring PC is now at your home office, at your companys desk in your living room and if you like, even in your phone.
Data needs to be accessible everywhere, anytime. It must float from your home to your office and it must be safe. You may organize your movies in an Oracle database or in an Excel spreadsheet. Possibilities are endless.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining. I just want to point out, that keeping up2date with all the software and hardware options you have today, you may dedicate 2 days a week just in studies and software reviews, in hardware tests and coding sessions. To be a WinMacLin expert, you must invest a lot of time and it will only work, if you really love that stuff!
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