Dot.Bombs AZ Style

[Daniel Wolstenholme]

I interviewed there in early 2002, but the impression I got as
an interviewee was that it was an all-MS shop as I never saw
Linux anywhere, and when I asked about it I was only told about
its use in target systems.  All the desktop systems I saw were
MS, and I was told that all the host systems were MS using
Citrix Metaframe.  My resume intentionally had no mention of any
MS products on it, but the people in my interview seemed more
interested in whether I'd be willing to learn WinCE than
anything Unix-based.  I was told that customers wanted Windows
and .NET, so that's where they were going.  Considering that the
Dice.com ad for the position seemed very pro-Linux, I felt
rather deceived at the interview when I found out how big a
priority Windows was.  This was one of the main reasons I had
for rejecting the job.

The other was that they had burned through 3 rounds of funding
without becoming profitable, and told me that they only had
enough funding to last till November.  Guess the 4th round
didn't come through.

The unsubscription thing turned out to be an issue with how I
receive my email (the system automatically unsubscribed me) and
is fixed now.

Dan

David Mandela wrote:
>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


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