Impressions can and are deceiving. DOL infrastructure was Linux, Novel,
Windows. Desktops mostly Windows (non windows desktops accounted for
about 10 - 15%). Customers wanted .NET on the embedded side so we put it
up. Did it with Linux.

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:09, Daniel Wolstenholme wrote:
> I interviewed there in early 2002, but the impression I got as
> an interviewee was that it was an all-MS shop as I never saw
> Linux anywhere, and when I asked about it I was only told about
> its use in target systems.  All the desktop systems I saw were
> MS, and I was told that all the host systems were MS using
> Citrix Metaframe.  My resume intentionally had no mention of any
> MS products on it, but the people in my interview seemed more
> interested in whether I'd be willing to learn WinCE than
> anything Unix-based.  I was told that customers wanted Windows
> and .NET, so that's where they were going.  Considering that the
> Dice.com ad for the position seemed very pro-Linux, I felt
> rather deceived at the interview when I found out how big a
> priority Windows was.  This was one of the main reasons I had
> for rejecting the job.
> 
> The other was that they had burned through 3 rounds of funding
> without becoming profitable, and told me that they only had
> enough funding to last till November.  Guess the 4th round
> didn't come through.
> 
> The unsubscription thing turned out to be an issue with how I
> receive my email (the system automatically unsubscribed me) and
> is fixed now.
> 
> Dan
> 
> David Mandela wrote:
> >Sorry Daniel, 
> >You are incorrect about DevelopOnline not being a Linux shop.
> >Most of our infrastructure was Linux. Now that was not the case
> >when I started there in 2000 but by mid 2001 most of the MS
> >servers had been but away.
> 
> >Yes the marketing folks thought that the .NET push might help
> >save the company but the .NET push was only a marketing ploy.
> >We never switched back to a MS shop. 
> 
> >We did have some MS units, could not avoid it, but even in the
> >.NET site the most of the entire back end was run with Linux
> >and a bit of Novel. The only place we ran MS products was where
> >my Sysadmins could not find/install a suitable OS replacement.
> 
> >At the desktop level we had mostly Windows desktops, though we
> >did have a mix of Macintosh, Linux, and FreeBSD desktops too.
> >Those were in the development area though none of the executive
> >staff or marketing staff used anything but Windows (with the
> >exception of myself, I've been running Linux as a desktop since
> >1997).
> 
> >Daniel I don't actually remember you though, perhaps Ron the IT
> >manager interviewed you. Could be once I hired Ron I stepped
> >back from most of the interview process. 
> 
> >As to your unsubscription I doubt anyone did that, at least in
> >relation to anything you said about DOL. I know I can't and if
> >I could I would not bother, I am equally sure that Hans could
> >not be bothered either. DOL was a good idea that died too soon,
> >someone will do it again when there is money to do it with.
> 
> >Cheers,
> >David Mandala
> >Ext. CTO/VP Engineering DevelopOnline.com
> 
> 
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