[luau] Linux in Hawaiian Industry

[Deven Phillips]

Welcome Keith,

    Well, all of the Universities are using Linux like crazy, but they 
don't pay extremely well. Mauii CC might be interested to have you though.

Deven

Keith wrote:

>Greetings fellow penguin lovers.  (Penguins in Hawai'i?  Who'd ever
>guess?)
>
>I'm a Mainlander (east coast; NY for 24 years, NJ for 4), heading to
>Maui with my immediate family in October of this year.  Coming with me
>will be 8 years of solid linux experience (since the slackware 1 days),
>4 years of which is in industry (granted, with startup companies that
>chose Linux for cost-cutting reasons more than anything else).  I
>certainly do not want to leave this experience behind; I'd like it to
>continue to grow as it has over the past years.  (My friends here joke
>about witnessing a "penguin revolution in the tropics".)
>
>I spoke with "halfline" in #hosef on IRC for a little bit earlier and he
>suggested that I present my questions to this list.  So, in a nutshell,
>what is the position of Linux in Hawaiian commercial industry?  And
>what, if anything, is HOSEF doing to promote commercial Linux usage?  I
>understand the cost of doing business (and hiring full-time employees,
>for that matter) is very high.  Linux is a logical cost-cutting
>solution, at least from a computing perspective, and it would amaze me
>if businesses don't at least consider using it.
>
>All of your feedback will be greatly appreciated.  I'm finding it rather
>difficult to locate potential employment opportunities in this field
>(sys admining/sys programming) over there.
>
>Thanks for your time!
>
>Aloha!
>krjw.
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