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Sure, athletes are bought and sold all the time; but it sounds ridiculous to shop a UNIX programmer or architect. Yet the timing is perfect for such a bold experiment in the burgeoning field of e-cruiting. Not only is unemployment near record lows, but Silicon Valley is also facing a severe shortage of qualified techies. There are 500,000 vacancies, a number expected to grow to a few million. In such a tight labor market, the Net may be just the tool for the growing ranks of job-hopping free agents to flex their bargaining muscle...
...over Java, and another in Utah about DOS (how's that for relevance?) -- talk about pretty much the same thing: Microsoft's leveraging its platform dominance into software dominance. Bristol (which makes a product called Wind/U that is meant to bridge the code gulf between Windows and a competitor, Unix, and vice versa) says Microsoft withheld the NT code to keep Bristol -- and Unix programmers -- out of the software game now dominated by Windows-viable products. Microsoft, unsurprisingly, denies the claim. But after Gates pulled the rug out from under his own defense team Thursday in Washington with an apparently...
...takes hours to download and unpack them. And if my computer survived the daunting Linux installation process, could I actually use the thing? The interface is user friendly only if the user happens to be a comp-sci Ph.D. Linux, after all, is based on Unix, an industrial-strength operating system one dabbles in but never really masters. I waffled. (Visual: calendar pages flipping...
...information superhighway keeps us sufficiently connected via UNIX; this contrived form of virtual communication is an exercise in Internet ostentatiousness...
Perhaps it says something about the values of our campus that one of the most celebrated student creations is a UNIX bus schedule. Thanks so much, Dave J. Malan '99--you've inspired a generation of computer innovators. Their legacy: Datesite.com...