[mdlug] *nix company roll call

[David Lee Lambert]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 21:03, Jeff Hanson wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, how many Michigan companies do you know of
> extensively use or support Unix/Linux/BSD/Solaris etc?

My employer,  although it's not an IT company and probably won't be hiring 
more IT staff in the near future.  We have some Windows-based servers 
(including instances of SQL server), but all our newest servers run Linux 
(mostly Gentoo).  We're also talking about using Xen or some other 
virtualization technology to do some server consolidation.

> I keep encountering the attitude that Linux is for single guys who are
> self-taught programming hacks that work out of their parent's
> basement.

My boss was a self-employed "C" embedded systems developer before he signed on 
at this company.  I haven't figured out exactly what OSes he used back then,  
but he currently uses Ubuntu for his main personal workstation at work.

-- 
David Lee Lambert ... Software Developer
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<lamber45 at msu.edu>
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