Dot.Bombs AZ Style

[David Mandala]

Sorry Daniel, 

You are incorrect about DevelopOnline not being a Linux shop. Most of
our infrastructure was Linux. Now that was not the case when I started
there in 2000 but by mid 2001 most of the MS servers had been but away.

Yes the marketing folks thought that the .NET push might help save the
company but the .NET push was only a marketing ploy. We never switched
back to a MS shop. 

We did have some MS units, could not avoid it, but even in the .NET site
the most of the entire back end was run with Linux and a bit of Novel.
The only place we ran MS products was where my Sysadmins could not find
/install a suitable OS replacement.

At the desktop level we had mostly Windows desktops, though we did have
a mix of Macintosh, Linux, and FreeBSD desktops too. Those were in the
development area though none of the executive staff or marketing staff
used anything but Windows (with the exception of myself, I've been
running Linux as a desktop since 1997).

Daniel I don't actually remember you though, perhaps Ron the IT manager
interviewed you. Could be once I hired Ron I stepped back from most of
the interview process. 

As to your unsubscription I doubt anyone did that, at least in relation
to anything you said about DOL. I know I can't and if I could I would
not bother, I am equally sure that Hans could not be bothered either.
DOL was a good idea that died too soon, someone will do it again when
there is money to do it with.

Cheers,

David Mandala

Ext. CTO/VP Engineering DevelopOnline.com

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 12:41, Daniel Wolstenholme wrote:
> 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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