On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Rob Saul wrote: > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:15:51 -0700 > From: Rob Saul <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] London Stock Exchange - $Soft out, Linux/Solaris in > > Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> >> The financial/investment community has had a strong commitment >> to Unix for decades. The remaining question was when to move >> from Unix to Linux, and most large firms made the back-office >> conversion years ago. > > That much I've been aware of. In a previous life I worked at > a closed source UNIX shop that was a vendor to an exchange. > > I've not kept my ear to the ground with regards to Linux adoption > for awhile. I've been fortunate to work in places where it was > the rule rather than the exception for quite awhile now. > >> Most of the desktop is still M$. > > No accounting for taste. ;) > > Anyway, thanks again to Pete for passing along the link. > > ~Rob
I've been doing a lot of job hunting lately. Being a Lisp developer, I have been searching for jobs in this area. I am finding that financial companies are the biggest users of custom Lisp solutions (at least from my vantage point). These companies have money; they're not using Lisp for its up-front cost savings. My theory is that even though it costs more to hire good Lisp developers, they're willing to pay it for the best solution. What I don't understand is how non-computer people discovered Lisp amidst all the marketing noise. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
