[LISA made LISA obsolete (That's a compliment!) | USENIX](https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/lisa-made-lisa-obsolete-thats-compliment)o 1. System administration is important 2. Computers should be actively managed 3. Automation is important 4. System administration is a human process 5. Open systems like TCP/IP and POSIX (Unix) are the future > USENIX board: No. We're academics and there's nothing science-y or research-y or interesting about system administration. > Sysadmins: Gosh, we thought about what you said last time. We agree that system administration isn’t interesting [not really, but we're buttering them up]. However sites with a large number of computers have interesting research-y challenges. How about we focus on Large Installation System Administration?