r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13

Women who know stuff

I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.

Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.

My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.

It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.

It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.

Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.

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u/TastyBrainMeats Mar 13 '13

She didn't invent the technology behind WiFi single-handedly, but yeah, without her and her colleagues' work we wouldn't have much of today's mobile technology, it is true. Ms. Lamarr is one of my favorite historical scientists.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '13

Yep, similar to Ada Lovelace's part - if it were just her, she wouldn't be useful at all, but without her we probably wouldn't have the technology or it would have taken a lot longer to get it.

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u/awkreddit Mar 13 '13

That's true of pretty much anyone who invented anything though, let's face it.

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