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Postings from February 2007
On Feb 27, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > But I'm aware from a friend that at financial > institutions, the financial risk or losses from not having some > software > running (in his area because it's not yet written) can be around > $1,000,000 > per day. The stakes are high. That's why Yahoo employs Rasmus Lerdorf (of PHP fame). I talked with Lerdorf at last year's OSCON, and he said that Yahoo aggressively seeks to hire the developers of key open software tools. According to him, if you want to sell Yahoo software services and you have an open source competitor, you're screwed -- because they'd much rather go with the open source solution and hire the principle devs. Maybe y'all ought to break Perl once. Then all of a sudden, some company will lose a million bucks and realize how insane it is that they didn't keep a core Perl programmer on staff as an insurance policy. Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/