I have been helping run a web development company in Baton Rouge called Modiphy for about 3 years now. Most of the development we do is based on open source technologies LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP).
Modiphy supports Linux because when it comes down to it; I make the finial decisions on technical problems and for what we do Linux and open source works, its more cost effective, and most importantly of all; its what I know. I have never had to administer a windows based server and if you gave me one to administer I would probably have to do some documentation reading :) I was once unemployed looking for work. And believe me it isn't easy finding a technology job in Baton Rouge; especially one that will pay a reasonable wage. I only made $9/hr my first job, but I was only 18 then and I had no bills so it was a lot of cash to me. I believe the reason you have seen programmers wages in the last few years plummet is because of out of country outsourcing. The market is flooded with Indian programmers willing to write code. And from what I have heard it only costs $300/mo US to pay a programmer in India with a 4 year collage degree! So dose it make sense for me to pay an American programmer $50/hr for the same work? Plus I'd imagine most of the companies looking for a php developer are looking for someone that knows php very well but is young so they don't have to fork out the cash. Baudouin, Andrew wrote: >I had a short-term open source job once locally, and it paid a measly $8.00 >per hour. Can you buy a house and support a family on that? I applied for a >Linux networking admin job once locally, never even got an interview. I >also saw a PHP job in the paper advertised for $8 an hour. Those THREE JOBS >are the only ones even remotely related to open-source technologies that I >have seen advertised in the Baton Rouge paper (disclaimer, only was looking >between 8/2001 and 8/2003, have been employed since then) > >Companies don't usually pay for custom software to be created and then allow >it to be released into the public domain. > > -- Blake Gardner Phone: 225.248.0035 Fax: 512-692-2666 modiphy <http://www.modiphy.com/> ::. Phenomenal Web Design ?modiHost <http://www.modihost.com/> ::. CRASH TESTED Dummy Approved modiphy.com <http://www.modiphy.com/> -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 13 17:05:37 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Baudouin, Andrew) Date: Thu Jan 13 17:04:14 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Supporting Linux vs. Linux Zealotry Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would agree with you on that, but also add that an overwhelming majority of the open-source related positions available here are with small web development houses (like yours) who couldn't afford to pay a salary even if they wanted to. I worked for Netshapers briefly, you may have heard of them. As soon as I got a salaried job, I left even though I would rather have been doing open source development. Andrew Baudouin Applications Programmer AWC, Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] (225) 752-3939 x228 -----Original Message----- From: Blake Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Supporting Linux vs. Linux Zealotry I have been helping run a web development company in Baton Rouge called Modiphy for about 3 years now. Most of the development we do is based on open source technologies LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). Modiphy supports Linux because when it comes down to it; I make the finial decisions on technical problems and for what we do Linux and open source works, its more cost effective, and most importantly of all; its what I know. I have never had to administer a windows based server and if you gave me one to administer I would probably have to do some documentation reading :) I was once unemployed looking for work. And believe me it isn't easy finding a technology job in Baton Rouge; especially one that will pay a reasonable wage. I only made $9/hr my first job, but I was only 18 then and I had no bills so it was a lot of cash to me. I believe the reason you have seen programmers wages in the last few years plummet is because of out of country outsourcing. The market is flooded with Indian programmers willing to write code. And from what I have heard it only costs $300/mo US to pay a programmer in India with a 4 year collage degree! So dose it make sense for me to pay an American programmer $50/hr for the same work? Plus I'd imagine most of the companies looking for a php developer are looking for someone that knows php very well but is young so they don't have to fork out the cash. Baudouin, Andrew wrote: >I had a short-term open source job once locally, and it paid a measly $8.00 >per hour. Can you buy a house and support a family on that? I applied for a >Linux networking admin job once locally, never even got an interview. I >also saw a PHP job in the paper advertised for $8 an hour. Those THREE JOBS >are the only ones even remotely related to open-source technologies that I >have seen advertised in the Baton Rouge paper (disclaimer, only was looking >between 8/2001 and 8/2003, have been employed since then) > >Companies don't usually pay for custom software to be created and then allow >it to be released into the public domain. > > -- Blake Gardner Phone: 225.248.0035 Fax: 512-692-2666 modiphy <http://www.modiphy.com/> ::. Phenomenal Web Design ?modiHost <http://www.modihost.com/> ::. CRASH TESTED Dummy Approved modiphy.com <http://www.modiphy.com/>
