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[der.hans]

Am 20. Dec, 2002 schw=E4tzte Daniel Wolstenholme so:

> 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

Good choice.

> 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.

Based on another post it seems you applied for a job on the hardware team.
I'll cover that in a reply to that post.

There was much GNU/Linux going on at DevO, though. Most of our servers
were running debian GNU/Linux as was our main software development
environment. With desktops included we were probably one to one debian to
m$. We also had *BSD firewalls and at the point that I left several Sun
boxen were going in. As David mentions there were also a few Novel boxen.

GNU/Linux is why DevO was able to hold on so long after wasting millions of
dollars.

> 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?

You already determined it wasn't someone dropping you. We haven't ever
tossed anyone off the list. We certainly wouldn't do so for this post. I
am the only one who worked for both of the companies in the article. I will
gladly help you trash both of them :).

ciao,

der.hans
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