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Detroit News: Beating the systems: The best tech jobs depend more on your human connections

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 8, 1999

In a survey conducted by the Sans Institute in Baltimore, the
nearly 7,200 computer network and systems administrators who
responded reported an average income of $60,991.

“The greatest wage gains between 1997 and last year were
reported by people working with Linux, a free operating system.
Their knowledge of this increasingly popular system puts them in
high demand for Internet projects…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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