Chris Samuel wrote:
----- "Greg Byshenk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A former co-worker of mine now works elsewhere, at a company where
they are looking to build a cluster for some research he will be
doing, and it will almost certainly run Windows. And this is not
because there is something "better" about Windows, but because they
are a Windows shop, and thus the cost of hiring or training staff
would more than outweigh any savings on licenses.
This will also be a big factor for University ITS departments
too which often seem to have (at least here in Australia) become
MS only shops.
It's not just in Oz. We see the same thing here. All the kids I
interviewed this year had a lot of C# and .net "experience" with no
grasp of how to do more general programming. Got a lot of folks who
could do web work if we'd bring in FrontPage, too. And these were from
our CompSci department...
gerry
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