[Ubuntu-SG] New to singapore

[billy am]

Hmms ... I am sure there are small such companies. After all , my first job
was in a company of 2 men , including me.
But we were geeks. I meant to say most SMEs. The issue is something Heidir
already mentioned , persuading the management.

Isn't training to be managers same as office workers? Unless managers are
different from others.


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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 01:26:29PM +0800, billy am wrote:
> > Redhat has. Canonical I am not sure ... Mark did come down to Singapore
> > before. Suse yes.
>
> Red Hat's mostly a sales office, as are most other multi-national companies
> (e.g. Google, Facebook) which have bases in Singapore. I think the only
> major
> large corporation with a real coding base here is PayPal.
>
> > NUS mirrors everything btw. Including CRAN , CPAN , etc ... But again ,
> the
> > Universities train office workers/drones , not technologists/hackers. Pls
> > keep it in mind.
>
> Not quite, they train people who think that coding is a stepping stone
> toward
> management. And then they become managers and hang up whatever little
> xcoding
> skills they had in the first place.
>
> > Linux is cheaper ONLY if in large numbers. For SMEs , Linux is a
> nightmare.
> > Windows admins with 3 - 4 years experience can be found for below 2k /
> mth
> > , if you know where and how to find.
>
> Eh speak for yourself. I used to work in an SME with only 3 people (aside
> from
> me). They're doing pretty well, and they're mostly a Linux shop.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Loong Jin
>
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