[ale] Losing PHP Jobs in Atlanta? Growing ASP.NET?

[Jonathan Chum]

Heh, I was going to say he was cheap :) He did say that the ISP he was with
only offered Oracle. So I'm not sure if he's cheap or just plain stupid by
migrating over to a Windows 2003 Server with a SQL Server license. He had to
pay someone to migrate over to Windows too. So I'm curious what was it that
he couldn't just find another ISP that offer mySQL or PostGreSQL. It was
only 2 years ago and there were a ton of ISPs that offer mySQL, even if you
were on a Windows environment.

The article does end with this note:

"Such customers may not outweigh the numbers switching to Linux and sticking
with it, but Microsoft executives will take any wins they can."

Regards,
Jonathan Chum
Systems Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
Jonathan Glass
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:30 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: RE: [ale] Losing PHP Jobs in Atlanta? Growing ASP.NET?


For that matter, why not run Oracle on Linux?

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/index.html

Jonathan Glass

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:19, Jonathan Chum wrote:
> BTW, here's the eWeek article I was referring to;
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1651187,00.asp
>
> A quote from the article "Case said he was surprised by how well the
system
> worked, but Linux became an issue when Combe's Web applications needed a
> database, and the only option available to the company was one from Oracle
> Corp."
>
> I wonder who ran their IT dept., MySQL and PostGreSQL are two that comes
to
> mind. :)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Chum
> Systems Developer
>
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> 7000 Central Parkway
> Suite #1700
> Atlanta, GA 30328
> Tel: 770.350.7998 ext. 505 / Fax: 770.350.9409
> http://www.aismedia.com / jchum at aismedia.com
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Yu,
> Jerry
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:03 AM
> To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Losing PHP Jobs in Atlanta? Growing ASP.NET?
>
>
> a coincidence maybe, a recent google job posting for sys admin asked
whether
> you can write a large-gigantic script to do all what you did at your prior
> position.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Fletch
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:50 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Losing PHP Jobs in Atlanta? Growing ASP.NET?
>
>
> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Chum <jchum at aismedia.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>     Jonathan> I just read briefly an article in eWeek about that. How
>     Jonathan> about systems admin positions being replaced by
>     Jonathan> automated scripts that any junior S.A. can learn how to
>     Jonathan> use?
>
> Yeah, that works fine . . . until something underneath breaks
> (c.f. the joke about the engineer and the $50k chalk mark; $1 for the
> mark, $49,999 for knowing where to put it).
>
> --
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