On Jun 12, 8:54 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> __/ [ 7 ] on Tuesday 12 June 2007 19:06 \__
> > Jon Harrop wrote:
> >> Is anyone else finding that there is more money in the Linux market than
> >> anywhere else?
>
> > There is a vacuum for Linux engineers. There are so many things
> > I want to build, but no engineers available for hire.
>
> They are more expensive, but that will change as more and more people see
> Linux skills as a requirement or advantage when it comes to job vacancies.
This reminds me of an incident where I was working as a FORTH
programmer. The customer wanted some important work done in a very
short period of time. They brought in 2 people from FORTH Inc. They
provided an Operating system for a brand new device given nothing but
chip specifications - in about a week. 2 Weeks later they had a
complex application up and running.
When the executive in charge of the budget saw these two guys billing
$300/hour, he almost hit the roof, until he was informed that our
applications team had spent over 3 staff-years doing the same task on
a simpler piece of hardware.
Same thing is true of some Linux programmers, and even some Windows
programmers.
I've been on a few projects where we were able to have a Windows
programmer give us a quick and dirty user interface in a few days.
The GUI didn't enforce the business rules, but it did give the client
the ability to look at the data and make sure that the required
information was provided. The really hard work came when writing the
back-end middleware. After almost 5 staff years of floundering
Windows programmers, we brought in a UNIX programmer, who whipped up a
working solution in about 2 staff-months.
On the other hand, the UNIX guy didn't even WANT to write GUI
applications for UNIX. At least not in C++. When we decided that we
wanted a GUI interface for Linux, a Python programmer came in and
whipped it up in a few weeks. The Windows programmer was faster at
the simple interface, but the Python guy had to be more compliant with
previously established standards.
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