On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:14 -0400, A.Padilla wrote: > It seems like they do outsource local
Well technically I was outsourced LOCAL application development. I asked them why they were not developing the stuff from within. They said because we do not trust our own students. Which to a point makes sense, but then again, rather trust outsiders? So much for school spirit :) > and yes, there is definitely a lot of MS and .net stuff in there, at > least on the front end. Even the programs are moving towards using > more C#, etc. World is always changing. Not surprised there, I was doing Java, and they were pretty inexperience all around. In fact our biggest quagmire at the time, was the Windows admin having problems getting Tomcat's connector to play nice with IIS. Turns out it was an error in the documentation on apache.org at the time. However since I could not touch the keyboard, (not that I really wanted to touch any windows machine) I couldn't really help directly. Its funny how you don't catch things at times being third party, looking over someone's shoulder. At the time I did feel I would have caught it sooner if I wasn't looking over the admins shoulder. > On the subject of the IT department, it's like most other > universities. Most of the staff are part time (students) with admins > being MCSE's etc. When I did research there, the professors I worked > with only used *nix servers for research. Well those that retained my companies services for the contract weren't part time. Though worked for grant funded departments, I first met with and proposed to some board. They didn't seem to have any problems about spending others money. Then the main principle I was working with got promoted to another dept. Their replacement basically scrapped all technology and applications developed, and reverted back to more simplistic inefficient means. Kinda left a bad taste in my mouth, with the application never really seeing the light of day. Other projects terminated before completion. Basically just a waste of money and not an ideal project from my perspective either. Client did not get a return on investment, and did not result in more business after the fact. Lose lose all around :( -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
