Dot.Bombs AZ Style

[Daniel Wolstenholme]

I have to take exception to DevelopOnline having been a
significant GNU/Linux user.  I interviewed for a position with
them early this year (and luckily rejected it after discussing
their financials with a friend who knew a lot about bad dot-com
companies), and they basically were a Microsoft shop with a tiny
bit of Linux.  Even on their website was a huge banner
proclaiming their dedication to .NET.  The only Linux work they
did was on a few embedded systems where the customers demanded
it, but everything else was all MS.

I tried posting this before with my previous plug-discuss
account and was unsubscribed by someone, so apparently some PLUG
moderator has some ties to this company.  What's wrong, did I
piss you off by pointing out how crappy your company was?
 
Dan
 
--- Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:54:16 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Dot.Bombs AZ Style
> From: "Derek Neighbors" <derek@gnue.org>
>
> For those that may not read the AZ Republic.  I found it
> interesting to
> see on the _front_ page this blurb:
>
> Todays Top Five
> (
> http://www.arizonarepublic.com/news/articles/1219A1rail19.html
> )
>
> Dot.bombs
> (
>
http://arizonarepublic.com/business/articles/1219Dotbombs19.html
> )
>
> Two high-profile Arizona companies founded when fervor for new
> Internet
> technologies was high have dot.bombed: DevelopOnline and
> Opnix. Business,
> D1.
>
> I only post this as I know both companies used GNU/Linux to
> varying
> extents and both companies had people involved in PLUG to some
> degree.
> Hopefully, the tech economy in this state will improve in the
> next 18
> months so we can see success and not failure stories on the
> front page. :)
>
> -Derek


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