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I have worked in the *NIX world since 1981, over that time I have watched the skill level of the sysadmin degrade, a lot of it revolves around training – my first “Sysadmin I” course was five weeks long and I never actually saw a machine. It was all spent sitting at a Wyse 30 terminal, with a number of other trainees. Now I see sysadmins working for major vendors, with no training whatsoever.
Oh, you missed 11 exciting years
There is a strong believe that a new style of IT (cloud, virtualization, orchestration, automation, auto-scaling, self-healing, ...) will obsolete traditional system administration. Instead management-by-click will emerge.
Just order your desired IT-functions on your smartphone, and voila - your new company can go!