This is ridiculous... if MS Software sucks, STOP USING IT. No one is forcing anyone to use MS software. If it's crappy and full of bugs, use something else. I feel no sympathy for these people.
Duh... it happens all the time. Craploads of people go into fields that have nothing to do with their major. What else is there to say? What a ridiculous post and a ridulous waste of space.
My web development company, SpinWeb, is small (8 people) and privately held. We've been in business for over five years and we use PHP, Perl, MySQL, Unix/Linux, and other open-source technologies. We are thriving and having a great time. My opinion is that it's a result of our structure and approach to how we do business. Many huge web shops (i.e. Agency.com, Razorfish, Marchfirst) grew so large and in such a short time that they basically collapsed under their own bulk. The primary goal of these companies was to make money and watch their stock go up. In the meantime, the smaller, private companies continue to focus on producing quality work and having fun. This is not to say that the larger companies don't produce quality work, but they definitely operate by a different set of goals. I'm convinced that only the smaller, more agile web shops will survive and will continue to provide a fun work environment. Web development is a service that sometimes requires lots of interaction with the client and larger companies have trouble dealing with this. When clients want to make a change on their web sites, they don't want to wade through endless layers of project managers and team leaders, they want to talk to a developer and cut straight to the chase. This is what makes small companies like mine attractive to most clients.
I love my job and most days it doesn't seem like work.
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Yes, not free or cheap but see:
p enexchange-servers.php
http://spinweb.net/solutions/hosting/suse-linux-o
This is ridiculous... if MS Software sucks, STOP USING IT. No one is forcing anyone to use MS software. If it's crappy and full of bugs, use something else. I feel no sympathy for these people.
Duh... it happens all the time. Craploads of people go into fields that have nothing to do with their major. What else is there to say? What a ridiculous post and a ridulous waste of space.
My web development company, SpinWeb, is small (8 people) and privately held. We've been in business for over five years and we use PHP, Perl, MySQL, Unix/Linux, and other open-source technologies. We are thriving and having a great time. My opinion is that it's a result of our structure and approach to how we do business. Many huge web shops (i.e. Agency.com, Razorfish, Marchfirst) grew so large and in such a short time that they basically collapsed under their own bulk. The primary goal of these companies was to make money and watch their stock go up. In the meantime, the smaller, private companies continue to focus on producing quality work and having fun. This is not to say that the larger companies don't produce quality work, but they definitely operate by a different set of goals. I'm convinced that only the smaller, more agile web shops will survive and will continue to provide a fun work environment. Web development is a service that sometimes requires lots of interaction with the client and larger companies have trouble dealing with this. When clients want to make a change on their web sites, they don't want to wade through endless layers of project managers and team leaders, they want to talk to a developer and cut straight to the chase. This is what makes small companies like mine attractive to most clients.
I love my job and most days it doesn't seem like work.
- http://michael.spinweb.net/articles.php?ID=8
Windows software breeds point and click sysadmins. Scary.