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Open Source Expertise in Short Supply
whydoyouask writes "Information week has an article on the shortage of expertise for enterprise open source projects and it's ramifications for both enterprises and salaries
for those possessed of these skill. While it is suspicious in it's timing and references to Ballmer's recent email it does point out some definite considerations that companies planning open source projects better account for. Those looking for marketable job skills might also take note."
Anything compiled with GCC? They lied.
... Bill? Is that you?
Or you are
as evidenced by slashdot comments
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
shortage of people having experience in working for free
there is an even greater shortage of expertise in closed source software!
You can patent anything, just ask Ballmer.
Here is how typical job ads look these days (curtesy craigslist.com group effort)
1. Need a PhD, no MA, MBA, any Master's Degree, BS, BA, or any Bachelor's degree or AA or AS, or any Associate's Degree accepted.
2. Must speak all languages human and computer.
3. Must have a 4.0 GPA from grade school on.
5. Applicant must have perfect attendance and never been late once in your life.
6. Must be in excellent health.
7. Must pass a background check, alcohol, and drug tests.
8. Must pass the BAR exam, Perfect 1600 SAT score, Ace the GRE
9. Must have an IQ of 160.
10. Must possess perfect spelling and grammar. You can not do anything wrong.
11. Professional attitude and dress is a must.
12. Must graduate from a Top tier school(Ivy League).
13. Must have 15 letters of excellent references.
14. Write a 150 page pager on why do you want to work for us.
15. Never quit a job, been terminated, or laid off before.
16. Never a straight shooter attitude.
17. Excellent interpersonal skills.
18. Pass personality tests.
19. Never use any curse words.
20. Must have a perfect credit history(No late payments ever!!)
21. Must be under 40, but have 41 years experience.
You must attend 20 interviews, go to a panel interview, pay for parking, and buy everyone in the company lunch and snacks.
Table-ized A.I.
Not to mention the ever-present threat of communist invasion.
That, and Zerg rushes...
this newest article on the front page
says OS development isn't quite all the rage...
i mean people love it, but experts are in short supply
for the free OS programs you don't need to buy
now this lack of experts
should start ringing bells
in the ears of those corps
who might lose business to dells
I say OS is great and OS is grand,
but in order to become the way of the land
you must fight, you must train,
craft experts all your own
fuck this college nonsense,
throw a student a bone
train them yourself,
don't trust for-profit schools
because those learning institutes
graduate too many fools
The article says different, says colleges are grand
and they've started to make linux the law of the land
But I say that's bunk, and that they're full of crap,
and are way less accurate than my campus LDAP
See I'm at RIT, in the CS track
and I say this path is filled with cheap hacks
In my Operating Systems class
I figured I'd learn
How to make a small kernal,
or have small changes to discern...
But instead all they taught
was threads in C
a topic I learned
IN CS THREE!
ANd as half the students
smiled with glee,
There was one who was pissed,
and that there was me.
You can say all you want, but schools are slow to turn,
and I'll have learned very little by the time i adjurn,
I'm no OS expert, but I've got karma to burn...
"I'd probably advertise Java as a must-have,"
"even possible I'd consider someone with no Java skills"
I hate you.
I found it on careerbuilder.com. Ad is for a "Systems Mgt Specialist" in Denver, CO - Just in case you want to apply. Please understand, these skills are the required minimums for one job.
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REQUIREMENTS
Skills Required:
MVS(Expert)
VM(Expert)
zOS(Expert)
JES2(Expert)
JCL(Expert)
General PC(Expert)
LAN/WAN TCP/IP(Expert)
Tivoli(Expert)
Tivoli Workload Scheduler(Expert)
Tivoli System Automation(Expert)
HMC for Mainframe(Expert)
Tivoli Event Console(Expert)
eESM(Expert)
AIX(Good)
Linux(G
OS/2(Good)
SUN Solaris(Good)
UNIX(Good)
Windows 2000(Good)
SUSE Linux(Good)
Red Hat Linux(Good)
Lotus 123(Good)
Lotus Freelance(Good)
Lotus WordPro(Good)
Microsoft Excel(Good)
Microsoft PowerPoint(Good)
Microsoft Project(Good)
Microsoft Word(Good)
Security(Good)
DB2(Basic)
Firewall(Basic)
MQ Series(Basic)
PeopleSoft(Basic)
SAP R/3(Basic)
Seibel(Basic)
Websphere(Basic)
AS/400(Exposure)
C(Exposure)
C++(Exposure)
H
Oracle(Exposure)
Perl(Exposure)
V
Visual C++(Exposure)
Years of Experience Required.Minimum of 5 years managed operations experience
Education Requirements.BS in CS or CIS . . .