[luau] China Needs 1,200,000 Linux Engineers

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

My experiences about China are, before last year, every projection 
regarding China was laughably exaggerated.  After 2002, everything has 
changed and every number, every estimate, is now understated.  But, read 
the following article ("Linux Training A Big Business: China has an 
urgent need for more than 1,200,000 Linux engineers"):

http://news.huash.com/gb/news/2003-10/14/content_579548.htm

(This article appears in one of the few nation-wide newspapers in 
China.  Again, you can go to altavista for a Q&D on-line translation.)

As I mentioned last year, Japan plans to re-build its National Internet 
Infrastucture in 2007, and the ruling LDP has decided to try to squeeze 
Linux in as at least part of the this huge project.  Only a year passed, 
and it now appears that Microsoft will have to fight very hard so that 
it will not be left out.  Amazing how things related to Linux could 
change so rapidly and drastically.  But Japan normally would want their 
own instructors to do the training.  Gaijins are welcome, but only in 
small numbers, plse.

Now back to China.  The need of trainers to train the 1.2 million-plus 
Linux engineers will, by no way, a small number.  Indeed, it will 
involve an astronomical number of instructors.  Perhaps someone smart 
will think of some ways to combine Linux training with tourism.  
Everyone here will thank you.  wayne