Dot.Bombs AZ Style

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I know I am coming into this thread late (I was in Vegas all weekend) but
as  a former DevelopOnline employee I have to give my shilling's worth.
DOL used LINUX wherever it made sense, from PostgreSQL database servers,
APACHE + PHP web servers, application servers, Qmail mail servers, the
list goes on... Most of the Windows machines in the stack were used to
support embedded tool sets from vendors whose tools were only available
for Windows. All the sysadmins, and even a handful of the developers ran
LINUX workstations as their primary machines. I have a feeling you were
taken through marketing on your way to the server room which would explain
your Windows workstation sightings. Hell, we even had Rasmum Lerdorf and
Richard Stallman hanging out in our office, and we hosted a Debian mirror.
How much more LINUX friendly can you get!? Although DOL has bitten the
dust, I believe they are due credit for making LINUX the major component
of their unique architecture and showing how flexible and powerful it
really is.

- Joel Dudley

> 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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