[advocacy-discuss] Jobs

[Dennis Clarke]

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>
>> > Brian Gupta wrote:
>> >> I saw one too. The question is, isn't the jobs list supposed to be for
>> >> OpenSolaris jobs? The Google recruiters are just looking for generic
>> >> coders. The jobs they have aren't specifically for OpenSolaris.
>> >>
>> >
>>
>> [rant]
>>
>>   Google is Linux centric. A Google recruiter called me over a year ago
>> and was looking for someone that could setup and direct the creation of
>> server farms from concrete foundation through to final HVAC signoff
>> and then move on the the next server farm.  After half a dozen people
>> talkng with me about planning and directing people and doing basic army
>> project planning I hit someone that asked me about Linux. That was the
>> last I ever heard from them. Strangely, Solaris servers run on x86 and
>> AMD64 just like Linux but that was news to them. At the end of a three
>> month process I decided that the Google recruiting process was insane.
>
> Well, they were advertising for "Solaris System Administrators" about a
> month ago so maybe that is changing.  OT, anyway.

not really.

If there is any real measure of awareness around a technology it is the
degree to which people are willing to actually implement it. If everyone is
happy with a hobby type of thing then fine, let's all just twiddle bits in
our basements and giggle to each other.

But that is not the case.

Google is advertising 234 positions in the USA with the codeword "Linux" in
the description. There are zero for Solaris.  Google has made their
corporate policies and no one is going to move that ship in a new direction
unless you come up with the cure for cancer. Even then, that may not be
enough.

Dennis