Please read my entire post before disagreeing strongly ;-) "Isn't it quite hard to get accepted into the really good OS projects?
Also, I don't think that having worked on an OS would impress the typical corporate." I would qualify JBoss as being a really good OS project. Are you telling me that any out-of-work Java programmer in Cape Town can start contributing to this more easily than getting a job? I would be surprised. I saw a friend of mine become accepted as a contributor, and that was a major major job. Easier finding a job, it seemed to me. Kind regards from Heinz -- Dr. Heinz M. Kabutz (Maximum Solutions) Sun Java Champion Author of "The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter" <http://www.javaspecialists.co.za/> Tel: +27 (83) 340-5633 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lisa Retief > Sent: 15 February 2006 11:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CTJUG Forum] Re: Java Developer needed > > > > 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 > >
