Hi All,
I'm Just having an idea, and I would like to share with you.
a friend of mine made an ad in the newspapers requesting a Linux admin, and
no one bothered to send a resume. Also, we are in constant need at our
company for PHP Developers, most of the team learned PHP while working in
it.
One of the managers today asked a simple question, well as when we require a
.NET Developer, we can hire one easily, but when it's a PHP, it's really a
big problem, so why don't we just convert our platforms to .NET. (well of
course we answered him, and some discussion went there).
It seams that the Jordanian Market is lacking FSF people, and well, this
costs them money, (it's the reason why most of us are paid higher than
others working on commercial platforms).
what if companies stopped using FSF cause the lack of people who can deal
with it. what can we do about it.
you can't convince companies to change to a FSF platform, and tell them,
well yes, it's better for you, but you have to pay higher salaries, and if
you needed more employees, you would have a hell of a time.
As individuals, I know a lot had contributed to make things better, but I
don't thing that individuals scattered alone would be a good solution ...
A seminar in a university, you might get 50 students to attend, and the rest
are out, also you cannot convince all the 50, if you convinced 5, well that
is a big achievement. but the most would see ads about .NET vacancies, and
hear the words from MS, and would think that .NET, or even MS is a better
career path, (and I know changing a career path after you've started is much
harder than when you started it, I've done it before, and I'm glad I've done
it early in my life), so what I'm saying is that seminars are good, but they
are not good enough.
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Ala'a A. Ibrahim
http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/
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