[Ubuntu-SG] New to singapore

[Chow Loong Jin]

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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