RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Interesting (real life) story I want to share with the list. (fwd)

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It's a forward from the the Twin Cities PHP list so that gives you an idea
that it is likely to far to commute. And he didn't say what college yet.
;)

Don't dream it. Be it.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Ross, Matt wrote:

> Not going to tell us what college so we can enroll??
>
> > A local college asked me to sit on their eCommerce advisory board.  I
> > attended my first meeting week.
> >
> > The meeting started with the IT department head stating that they are
> > going to become very Microsoft-centric.  About the time I started to
> > wonder how much I'd be able to contribute to this advisory board, the
> > majority  of the people in the meeting (managers and business owners)
> > started to voice objections to their MS-centered strategy.  What the
> > MAJORITY of the IT leaders in attendance suggested was a
> > Linux/PHP/MySQL track.  Then they all started talking about how they
> > left the Microsoft technology in favor of the more usable PHP/MySQL
> > technologies (and have never looked back).  One person said his
> > business charges more if they have to develop in a MS environment--and
> > I thought I was the only one who did that.
> >
> > This is the first time I've heard a group of (local) IT managers and
> > business owners voice overwhelming favoritism for Open Source
> > technologies.  Suddenly, I felt right at home!  There was not one
> > person in the group that defended or supported teaching .NET, SQL
> > Server or IIS.
> >
> > This particular school, BTW, took our advice and promised to offer a
> > parallel track in addition to the Microsoft track that will center on
> > Open Source technologies--namely Linux, PHP, Apache, Perl and MySQL.
> >
> > These times, they are a changing.
> > --schrenk,
> >
> >
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