If HP is found guilty then they are not the only ones who will go down for this. BellSouth is very guilty of this. At one point they fired most of their full time IT and development staff and hired Accenture to do most of their IT and development work. Here's the catch, Accenture went and hired all of the same people who were "fired". The same people who had been working the same job for five to fifteen years went right back to work at the same place sitting at the same desk. The only difference is they started getting their paychecks from a different company. Oh, and the other difference is, Accenture did not pay any overtime. Of course some people used the transition to their advantage and made use of their new employer but the whole thing seemed like a somewhat shady tax evasion thing. This happened during the tech bubble burst so people were happy just to have a job. It did seem insane to some people because now BellSouth was paying two to five times as much per resource. I figured it was a big shuffling of the corporate books. I did wonder how legal it was though. This case with HP could prove to be interesting......
Although many Linux users are happy with the amazing amount of free and open source software available it is nice to see commercial companies considering the Linux platform worth supporting. I wouldn't expect your average slashdot reader to go out and buy this tomorrow, but for the manager who has allowed a few developers in her office to to use Linux but hates to hear that the companies chosen software for xxxx does work on Linux, this is a good thing.
No, not earth shattering news. I doubt that CD burning software will "tip the scale" of acceptance at most companies and suddenly you will be asked on your first day what your choice of OS is. But the more companies that release their software for Linux the more your average joe will start to consider the platform viable.
Again, not a big deal. But it sure is nice to see.
programmers that are looking for work that jobs aren't as scarce as they seem. Why are they trying to do this? We're invisible. We don't count. If they'd stop talking about it, it wouldn't bother me as much.
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Depending on your skill set and where you are in the country the job market for tech folks has been steadily improving. Here in Atlanta, GA there is plenty of work right now in both.NET and Java. I'm even seeing a bit of Linux, networking, sysadmin and security work. Perhaps it's time to expand your horizons!
We use Subversion here at my company and have had a great time with it. When we moved from CVS we had a few headaches but the documentation is so good that we had an easy time figuring it out. Now we have all of our projects in Subversion repositories. Life is good....
Then we loaded a project onto SourceForge. Back to CVS. I screwed up the initial import and had to remove a bunch of files. Do you know how this is done? By sending a request into SourceForge.
What a great comment! I'm a developer with 8 years in the industry and I came from a strict CS background (UMass Amherst). I've always felt that the background I recieved at UMass was a great help in the work field but usually didn't directly help me solve real world problems. So I suplimented some of the standard CS courses with the more applied engineering courses and internships to give me real world experience.
I think the comment above is a great approach to the "science" of software engineering. Seeing what people are really doing and using that as a focus for new theory and achedimic development should be a good way to lead achedimia in the right direction. I had to go "against the grain" in college to get the proper mix of theory and application. It's good to see others are looking along these lines.
I'm a hiring manager for a small software company in Atlanta, Georgia. We are having a *lot* of trouble finding good Java/J2EE and Flash developers. Why move to Canada when you can get a good paying job here in the US!
Check out these positions: http://www.ajug.org/ajugcontext/servle t/getJobs
Please send resumes to:
hr@roundboxmedia.com
People keep complaining that there are no jobs in the US. We can't seem to find people to hire!
If you have any questions then please get in touch.
I'm a Java architect and manager for a small multimedia company. For 95% of the work I do Linux is by far the best tool for the job. The only thing I'm missing is Flash. Now that I have the player that helps but if I could get the authoring tools that would be even better. I don't want to invest in a Windows license because that is not the best tool for my job.
Heck, I'll pay straight out of my own pocket for this.
User's of open source software don't buy software? Maybe. I write software. I don't mind paying for good software. And everyone at my company would rather buy Linux software then Windows software. So there!
-- Dan Glauser J2EE Architect Roundbox Media http://www.roundboxmedia.com
According to his book, much of Kevin's skills lie in Social Engineering, a.k.a. convincing people to tell you exactly what your looking for. He makes a bit point of saying that it's much easier to convince people to tell you their password than to crack into their computer.
I'm not sure what to expect straight out of college but just to give you perspective I'm a lead Java architect with 7 years of experience and I'm making $55K per year in Atlanta, GA.
I mostly feel lucky to have a job.....
I know recient grads that are being offered $45K per year. I also have high level friends making much more than this. They are about to loose their jobs to outsourcing though......
A few suggestions. Keep your cost of living low, your salary expectations humble, and try and work with an offshore team. Yup. That's right. Why you might ask? Because most business folks are smart enough not to fire all of the US programmers. Someone is needed to manage that offshore team from a technical perspective right?
And believe me, after most folks first offshore experience they will see the value in having a local technical manager for the project.
Globalization is going to continue. There is no way to hold it back. The smartest thing we can do in the US is to increase our worth as employees. Pay attention to the market and move with it's demands.
My 2c's.
Good luck!
-- Dan Glauser J2EE Architect http://www.roundboxmedia.com
If ION can put together a slick looking and feeling desktop system with linux nicely tuned on it then I will be *glad* to give them my money. And I have been setting up linux on laptops and workstations for a number of years now.
Why would I pay them money when I can just buy a Dell and do the same?
Two reasons.
Because I'm not always satisfied with the hardware that Dell chooses and I'll be very happy if I don't have to download another $%*# experimental winmodem driver, get the right hardware acceleration components loaded into my X server or figure out why the cd/rw only appears as a cd.
I love linux and love the control I have over the entire system but I hate having to wrestle with configuration issues all the time. If by default my laptop came well tuned and looking pretty I would pay the ION folks some $$$$.
And so would my company.
And so would my friend's companies.
Cool. I hope they get their prices and the the look of their distro right.
Oh, and add a few we more servers to the cluster......
-- Dan Glauser J2EE Architect http://www.roundboxmedia.com
Actually I can see this being a popular selling point at stores like CompUSA.
"Yes, you can get this computer, but sir, this one right here includes hardware encryption built into the system. That way the RIAA can't see what you're doing."
On the other hand any "paranoid freak" is going to scoff at anything less than 128 bit encryption.
This sounds like a good idea but an inadequate implementation.
and stand a chance of beating them legally why not download music off of CD's that you own. That way when the RIAA comes after you all you have to do is to walk into court with the original CD's (all scracthed up) and say that you never made a backup copy of the original and are so glad for all this file sharing stuff so you can listen to the music that you've already purchased again. As far as I can tell, that's legal......
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If HP is found guilty then they are not the only ones who will go down for this. BellSouth is very guilty of this. At one point they fired most of their full time IT and development staff and hired Accenture to do most of their IT and development work. Here's the catch, Accenture went and hired all of the same people who were "fired". The same people who had been working the same job for five to fifteen years went right back to work at the same place sitting at the same desk. The only difference is they started getting their paychecks from a different company. Oh, and the other difference is, Accenture did not pay any overtime. Of course some people used the transition to their advantage and made use of their new employer but the whole thing seemed like a somewhat shady tax evasion thing. This happened during the tech bubble burst so people were happy just to have a job. It did seem insane to some people because now BellSouth was paying two to five times as much per resource. I figured it was a big shuffling of the corporate books. I did wonder how legal it was though. This case with HP could prove to be interesting......
Although many Linux users are happy with the amazing amount of free and open source software available it is nice to see commercial companies considering the Linux platform worth supporting. I wouldn't expect your average slashdot reader to go out and buy this tomorrow, but for the manager who has allowed a few developers in her office to to use Linux but hates to hear that the companies chosen software for xxxx does work on Linux, this is a good thing.
No, not earth shattering news. I doubt that CD burning software will "tip the scale" of acceptance at most companies and suddenly you will be asked on your first day what your choice of OS is. But the more companies that release their software for Linux the more your average joe will start to consider the platform viable.
Again, not a big deal. But it sure is nice to see.
--
Dan
I'm not cool enough for a real sig.
programmers that are looking for work that jobs aren't as scarce as they seem. Why are they trying to do this? We're invisible. We don't count. If they'd stop talking about it, it wouldn't bother me as much.
[/snip]Depending on your skill set and where you are in the country the job market for tech folks has been steadily improving. Here in Atlanta, GA there is plenty of work right now in both .NET and Java. I'm even seeing a bit of Linux, networking, sysadmin and security work. Perhaps it's time to expand your horizons!
We use Subversion here at my company and have had a great time with it. When we moved from CVS we had a few headaches but the documentation is so good that we had an easy time figuring it out. Now we have all of our projects in Subversion repositories. Life is good....
Then we loaded a project onto SourceForge. Back to CVS. I screwed up the initial import and had to remove a bunch of files. Do you know how this is done? By sending a request into SourceForge.
Already I miss Subversion.....
--
Dan
What a great comment! I'm a developer with 8 years in the industry and I came from a strict CS background (UMass Amherst). I've always felt that the background I recieved at UMass was a great help in the work field but usually didn't directly help me solve real world problems. So I suplimented some of the standard CS courses with the more applied engineering courses and internships to give me real world experience.
I think the comment above is a great approach to the "science" of software engineering. Seeing what people are really doing and using that as a focus for new theory and achedimic development should be a good way to lead achedimia in the right direction. I had to go "against the grain" in college to get the proper mix of theory and application. It's good to see others are looking along these lines.
--
Dan
I'm a hiring manager for a small software company in Atlanta, Georgia. We are having a *lot* of trouble finding good Java/J2EE and Flash developers. Why move to Canada when you can get a good paying job here in the US!
e t/getJobs
Check out these positions:
http://www.ajug.org/ajugcontext/servl
Please send resumes to:
hr@roundboxmedia.com
People keep complaining that there are no jobs in the US. We can't seem to find people to hire!
If you have any questions then please get in touch.
http://www.roundboxmedia.com
I'm a Java architect and manager for a small multimedia company. For 95% of the work I do Linux is by far the best tool for the job. The only thing I'm missing is Flash. Now that I have the player that helps but if I could get the authoring tools that would be even better. I don't want to invest in a Windows license because that is not the best tool for my job.
Heck, I'll pay straight out of my own pocket for this.
User's of open source software don't buy software? Maybe. I write software. I don't mind paying for good software. And everyone at my company would rather buy Linux software then Windows software. So there!
--
Dan Glauser
J2EE Architect
Roundbox Media
http://www.roundboxmedia.com
According to his book, much of Kevin's skills lie in Social Engineering, a.k.a. convincing people to tell you exactly what your looking for. He makes a bit point of saying that it's much easier to convince people to tell you their password than to crack into their computer.
I'm not sure what to expect straight out of college but just to give you perspective I'm a lead Java architect with 7 years of experience and I'm making $55K per year in Atlanta, GA.
I mostly feel lucky to have a job.....
I know recient grads that are being offered $45K per year. I also have high level friends making much more than this. They are about to loose their jobs to outsourcing though......
A few suggestions. Keep your cost of living low, your salary expectations humble, and try and work with an offshore team. Yup. That's right. Why you might ask? Because most business folks are smart enough not to fire all of the US programmers. Someone is needed to manage that offshore team from a technical perspective right?
And believe me, after most folks first offshore experience they will see the value in having a local technical manager for the project.
Globalization is going to continue. There is no way to hold it back. The smartest thing we can do in the US is to increase our worth as employees. Pay attention to the market and move with it's demands.
My 2c's.
Good luck!
--
Dan Glauser
J2EE Architect
http://www.roundboxmedia.com
I think that you've missed on this one.
If ION can put together a slick looking and feeling desktop system with linux nicely tuned on it then I will be *glad* to give them my money. And I have been setting up linux on laptops and workstations for a number of years now.
Why would I pay them money when I can just buy a Dell and do the same?
Two reasons.
Because I'm not always satisfied with the hardware that Dell chooses and I'll be very happy if I don't have to download another $%*# experimental winmodem driver, get the right hardware acceleration components loaded into my X server or figure out why the cd/rw only appears as a cd.
I love linux and love the control I have over the entire system but I hate having to wrestle with configuration issues all the time. If by default my laptop came well tuned and looking pretty I would pay the ION folks some $$$$.
And so would my company.
And so would my friend's companies.
Cool. I hope they get their prices and the the look of their distro right.
Oh, and add a few we more servers to the cluster......
--
Dan Glauser
J2EE Architect
http://www.roundboxmedia.com
Plus do we really want SCO to be an issue 25 years from now?
I'm hoping they go away a lot sooner than that.....
Actually I can see this being a popular selling point at stores like CompUSA.
"Yes, you can get this computer, but sir, this one right here includes hardware encryption built into the system. That way the RIAA can't see what you're doing."
On the other hand any "paranoid freak" is going to scoff at anything less than 128 bit encryption.
This sounds like a good idea but an inadequate implementation.
and stand a chance of beating them legally why not download music off of CD's that you own. That way when the RIAA comes after you all you have to do is to walk into court with the original CD's (all scracthed up) and say that you never made a backup copy of the original and are so glad for all this file sharing stuff so you can listen to the music that you've already purchased again. As far as I can tell, that's legal......
Wow. Thank you Eric. Thank you for throwing the history book at them.
Much needed, much deserived.