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

[Ben Martin]

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On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 18:55, ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
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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] :)

hmm, interesting. The last contact I had with them was 4-5 years back
when 5 people where interviewing (interrogating?) me. They didn't seem
that interested in Linux back then but things change. Thanks for the
info:)

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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