Hi Heinz, Dr Heinz M. Kabutz wrote:
>Also, I don't think that having worked on an OS would impress >the typical corporate. > > I would disagree strongly. As an example, most banks and financial service institutions use the JBoss Application Server. If you are a contributor, or even have contributed patches to JBoss or any of the JBoss Enterprise Management Suite products, I bet you would get hired. My contributions to OS products like Xerces even got me a job in the past. I certainly do hire (and have in the past) based on OS exposure, and the technical interview that one goes through at corporates (the one before you discuss salary) is conducted by people who generally use OS (Linux, Tomcat, Struts, Spring etc) and know how rigorous the OS communities of projects like this are. Regards, Lisa
