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Postings from February 2007
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:11:03PM -0800, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > > 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 Yes, it does work too damn well. I suspect that's part of the "problem" as to why no-one's volunteering to fix it. > 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. eg Yahoo! What's curious here is that Yahoo! use Perl a lot in the backend. Yet I'm unaware of anyone on this list who works for them. I know a couple of ex-Yahoo! people in London who visible CPAN authors (and one now has had a module assimilated into core) Nicholas Clark