[Tutor] OT GPL project finished, presentation looming

[Dave S]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 22:35, Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Dave S" <pythontut at pusspaws.net> wrote
>
> > They will be concerned about using my app because I am one person.
> > What if I
> > get hit by a bus ! what if I leave ?
>
> This is a common problem in big companies including my own.
> For years they wouldn't even use the GNU software because it
> was "unsupported". I even had to buy a commercial version of
> emacs for about $300...

Ouch .... that must have hurt :(

>
> Eventually cygnus started offering support (for $5K per year)
> and they allowed us to use emacs, gcc etc Eventually even
> X windows.
>

Cool :)


> Now they are more relaxed and we use Linux to run our
> internal DHCP and DNS, even some web servers...
>

> > ...(It appears that none of the
> > company's IT professionals can program !)
>
> That's also not unusual. In fact our company appears to be
> slowly heading that way. We used to have 11,000 IT professionals
> of which around 5000 were developers. Now we have 13,000 IT
> professionals of whom about 1000 still write code. The coding
> is mainly offshored to India and Eastern Europe. Our internal
> people are being retrained on "higher value" roles like business
> analysis, design/architecture, deployment/integration and
> project management.

So sad - programming is soooo much creative fun. I have heard it being called 
an art form - I would agree with that. 

>
> So I now program in python as and when I can and call
> it prototyping...
>
> They call it progress.
>

'progress' ... mmm .... 'modern man management' ... (cynical mmm ...)

> Alan G.
>
>
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