[H-GEN] Linux related work in Bris vegas?

[ben.carlyle at invensys.com]

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G'day,

You might want to give the TAB a burl..
When I worked there for a few months a couple of years ago they were 
aching for people who actually understood linux to come onboard. They use 
a linux machine in each of their betting offices, and qnx to as the 
real-time system to process bets. It's not a big place, and I didn't find 
the work there particularly challenging but they offered a reasonable pay 
rate to a recent uni graduate and the working atmosphere was nice and 
relaxed[1] :)

They even featured in the Linux Journal a few years back.

Actually, I remember my boss of the time trying to come up with some of 
the reasons they've got such a large linux rollout other than "It's 
free"[2]. They were also looking at the time into hosting their own netbet 
system which had previously been run by Telstra.

Benjamin

[1] In by nine, out by five.
[2] .. as in beer.





Ben Martin <monkeyiq at users.sourceforge.net>
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> You might not necessarily find embedded Linux work, but if you're as 
good
> as you say then you should find Linux work or embedded work. 
(Personally,
> I don't mind non-Linux systems when it comes to embedded systems... just
> so long as it isn't wince)

The main problem I've had there is that most companies (from what I have
seen) want the 'feel good' factor of Linux, ie. the perception that they
are keeping up with things and not missing any developments. But they
don't *really* want it. So they end up with a token 486 running
Linux+apache and claim that the company is Linux friendly. It may just
be that I've had a bad run of interviews.



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