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In aus.computers.linux Mark Addinall <maddinall@iprimus.com.au> wrote:

> Unfortunately, in Australia, IT management is poor.  The
> big spenders in IT are the guvmint and if you have ever had
> the pleasure of trying to talk the public service into doing
> something sensible, you will know why we are not running
> Linux all over the place.

Australia is merely slow, always has been. Fashion here is
behind the US and Europe, music and films get released late here,
old rock bands come to Austrlaia to put in their "one last tour"
and management trends ape whatever was the big thing overseas 5 to 10
years ago.

My old man was telling me about trying to order transistors
back in the days when transistors were a new idea and what you could
buy in Australia was the obsolete models that no one could sell
anywhere else... nothing changes.

I predict that Aus govt will be the last bastion where Microsoft
operating systems make their final showdown, in about 15 years.

>> I
>> foresee a typical industry pattern with a rising demand for Linux
>> certification as companies require employees to be a "known quantity"
>> ie reliable, dependable and replaceable.

> How does a certificate denote reliability and dependability?
> What nonsense.  Sounds like you want to take all the creative
> Linux people and turn them into drones.  MicroBorg Software Inc.

Yup, that is the main idea. You can tell some people till you are
blue that swapping developers around between projects is not merely
a numbers game and that humans can't be summarised into a spreadsheet
but they still won't believe you.

>> Sun Certified Java Programmer should also be a goal.

> Phhht.

I though the objective was Linux certification?

Maybe astrophysics is worth a try...

	- Tel