Quoting Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It usually goes like this. The boss wants a web site, so he hires a web
> development company to create one. The developers in this company are
> obviously not people with a dozen years of computing experience, but
> people who have gone through a couple-months-long HTML course and have
> some artistic creativity in them.
There is a lot of truth in this. "Web Designer" and "Web Master" courses in
Israel are normally entirely Microsoft-oriented. My sister took one at John
Bryce. When she mentioned the word "Netscape" there people sneered. They learn
HTML, JScript (Ahem), VBScript, IIS, ASP, and so on.
This would explain the relatively low adoption of Linux/Apaache/{PHP,Perl} in
Israeli web sites. All those web designers require a working MS machine to even
get their bearings.
Maybe our take should be in the tech schools (John Bryce, Sela, Interbit,
High-Tech, whatever), pointing out Linux advantages, low license fees, and what
this means at a time when few companies can afford those $1000 to send over
employees. The result - more people who will be trained in using free software
go on the market.
Herouth
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