Date: 11 Jul 2001 18:23:36 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just checking... Message-ID: <86r8vn4hhj.fsf@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Michael Lucas's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:54:19 -0400" References: <20010710205419.A16827@blackhelicopters.org>
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Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> writes: > Hi, folks, > > What sort of market is there for decent FreeBSD sysadmins these days? > I'm just considering my options, not actively looking at this point. Well, here in Patras Greece, things are more or less like this: In the Univerity, you can find `jobs' that are mostly related to Solaris, HP/UX and AIX, as most departments hardly ever have a taste for Linux or one of the BSDs'. But jobs in educational departments are not well paying, and proffesional consulting is still a kraft rarely used. The web hosting companies are using mostly Linux, although some do consider switching over to BSD; FreeBSD being the BSD of choise, in those cases. A few others have based their content serving infrastructure on Windows (usually the NT, or 2000 breed of them, running IIS/MS-SQL), some of these switching to Linux with Apache/MySQL soon after. The workstations in most IT shops are Windows -- mostly Windows 98, with 95 still alive in some places, or (although much less often) Windows NT (the workstation edition). Greece is, unfortunately, still a place where Windows dominates the workstation market. On the other hand, I know of a lot of companies that are using some free Unix on their servers, even some telecomm companies that extensively use Linux or Solaris for their testing and development boxes. FreeBSD is still a niche market here, but it's ever growing. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message
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