Part of my job at the moment is to plan a double migration; one for the test/dev environment from a datacentre we'll have to move out of, and the other to separate our corporate IT provision from the company we de-merged from a few months ago. This all means a lot of planning, research, producing presentations and documents and spreadsheets, generally lots of work and fantasising about spending a _lot_ of money on big toys. OK, so part of the task is to make sure the solution isn't unneccessarily expensive, but even so and even being very careful and beating down suppliers for better prices, the numbers get quite big. There isn't even a down side in that it is likely I'll end up looking after some Windows kit and systems, because Windows got clever. I always liked NT4 Server (though I didn't want to do it full time) when I was working with it in my first full-time job, but I never got around to Active Directory and I haven't a lot of idea about Exchange yet. So, I may need to get some books and maybe go on a course (as well as hiring someone to look after desktop support).
While I'm not doing that, I've got a monitoring system to implement *rummages through the old Nagios docs*. And by the looks of it I need to update my documentation, I'm quite out of date with Nagios now. So I'll be doing that as I go along. Though it is entirely possible that, despite my current company being a Sun house, it'll be on Linux this time. Ah well, can't have it all and it does keep the O/S variety in play. And when I persuade the senior management that we need a development server for the Infrastructure team, I'll stick it on that and it'll be a Solaris box (or blade).
