Thursday, May 14, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Blog 13
What kind of jobs are out there in the Linux field, where are they, and how much could you make? Research the Internet and tell me what you find.
There is a ton of information on the internet about Linux jobs, salaries and areas. One of the sites that I thought had a lot of information was www.payscale.com . You could look at graphs of just about everything, by experience, location, job, size of company, and on and on.
I grew up in Montana and I would love to go back there. So, I looked for Linux jobs and salaries in MT. It’s sad, the State is hiring but the salary is $56,000. For MT, that is pretty high. When I left MT, I was making between $29,000 and $32,000 (I can’t remember which, it was a long time ago). My dad had worked at the State for 30 years, had a college degree and I was making more than he was.
The job that I looked up was for a Linux System Administrator. Here are some areas and what the internet says Linux administrators are paid.
Helena, MT $56,000
Billings, MT $61,000
Boise, ID $56,000
Reno, NV $71,000
Spokane, WA $73,000
Sacramento, CA $77,000
San Francisco, CA $81,000
Portland, OR $72,000
Salem, OR $77,000
Eugene, OR $80,000
Klamath Falls, OR $79,000
Pendleton, OR $90,000
The lowest paying type of job is the System Administrator and the $62,500 range and the highest was the Sr. Software Engineer in the $94,000 range.
If you looked at salaries by experience, I found the following: minimum experience less than 1 year the salary was around $59,000 and over 20 years experience pays over $100,000. That just gives you an idea of the start of your Linux career to what you would be making at the end of your career. That’s a pretty good range.
There are several different paths in the Linux field. Some of them are:
System Engineer
Programmer
System Administrator
Software Engineer
Web Developer
Jboss
DBA/Developer
LinkedIn Jobs had 31 pages of jobs that required Linux experience. All the jobs seemed to be in large metropolitan areas with the bulk of them being in CA, around the Bay area. There was one job listed for Microsoft. I could not resist looking at the job description and it did say that they required Linux experience. I think that’s funny, Microsoft wanting Linux.
Reading some of the job descriptions and requirements was intimidating. I think every one of them required a 4 year college degree and lots of experience. It seemed that there would not be very many people that would qualify. On the upside, it was really nice to see that even in the current economy there are a lot of Linux opportunities out there.
There is a ton of information on the internet about Linux jobs, salaries and areas. One of the sites that I thought had a lot of information was www.payscale.com . You could look at graphs of just about everything, by experience, location, job, size of company, and on and on.
I grew up in Montana and I would love to go back there. So, I looked for Linux jobs and salaries in MT. It’s sad, the State is hiring but the salary is $56,000. For MT, that is pretty high. When I left MT, I was making between $29,000 and $32,000 (I can’t remember which, it was a long time ago). My dad had worked at the State for 30 years, had a college degree and I was making more than he was.
The job that I looked up was for a Linux System Administrator. Here are some areas and what the internet says Linux administrators are paid.
Helena, MT $56,000
Billings, MT $61,000
Boise, ID $56,000
Reno, NV $71,000
Spokane, WA $73,000
Sacramento, CA $77,000
San Francisco, CA $81,000
Portland, OR $72,000
Salem, OR $77,000
Eugene, OR $80,000
Klamath Falls, OR $79,000
Pendleton, OR $90,000
The lowest paying type of job is the System Administrator and the $62,500 range and the highest was the Sr. Software Engineer in the $94,000 range.
If you looked at salaries by experience, I found the following: minimum experience less than 1 year the salary was around $59,000 and over 20 years experience pays over $100,000. That just gives you an idea of the start of your Linux career to what you would be making at the end of your career. That’s a pretty good range.
There are several different paths in the Linux field. Some of them are:
System Engineer
Programmer
System Administrator
Software Engineer
Web Developer
Jboss
DBA/Developer
LinkedIn Jobs had 31 pages of jobs that required Linux experience. All the jobs seemed to be in large metropolitan areas with the bulk of them being in CA, around the Bay area. There was one job listed for Microsoft. I could not resist looking at the job description and it did say that they required Linux experience. I think that’s funny, Microsoft wanting Linux.
Reading some of the job descriptions and requirements was intimidating. I think every one of them required a 4 year college degree and lots of experience. It seemed that there would not be very many people that would qualify. On the upside, it was really nice to see that even in the current economy there are a lot of Linux opportunities out there.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Blog 12
Find out or make up story where Linux came up with the penguin as its “mascot”.
After a few years of Linux, Linus finally decided that they needed to have a logo. They had a contest to create the logo. For some reason it had to be an animal. A platypus, a fox, a shark, an eagle were some of the animals that were suggested. Linus was not happy with any of those and he mentioned he liked penguins. There were lots of stories about Linus being bitten by a penguin.
A young man by the name of Larry Ewing was picked as the winner of the contest. His creation was of a plump, contented and cute penguin. This penguin was named ‘Tux’. Supposedly the name does not come from the fact that it looks like he is wearing a tux but from Torvalds Unix. I know that’s what they say but, I don’t buy it. If you are using the first letter of Torvalds, then you would use the first letter of Unix. That’s TU, not tux. If you were using the first and the last letters it would be TsUx. So, I really think the black and white penguin had something to do with the name.
One of the big things about logo is that it is also, open source, like Linux. Anyone can change the graphic anyway they want as long as they give Larry Ewing and Linux the credit. The fact that Ewing used GIMP to create Tux.
Actually, I think it’s a great Border Collie name. I plan on using it someday when I have a boy that fits the name. Black with a white chest and black front legs maybe white front feet. Cute, huh, maybe even cuter than a penguin.
After a few years of Linux, Linus finally decided that they needed to have a logo. They had a contest to create the logo. For some reason it had to be an animal. A platypus, a fox, a shark, an eagle were some of the animals that were suggested. Linus was not happy with any of those and he mentioned he liked penguins. There were lots of stories about Linus being bitten by a penguin.
A young man by the name of Larry Ewing was picked as the winner of the contest. His creation was of a plump, contented and cute penguin. This penguin was named ‘Tux’. Supposedly the name does not come from the fact that it looks like he is wearing a tux but from Torvalds Unix. I know that’s what they say but, I don’t buy it. If you are using the first letter of Torvalds, then you would use the first letter of Unix. That’s TU, not tux. If you were using the first and the last letters it would be TsUx. So, I really think the black and white penguin had something to do with the name.
One of the big things about logo is that it is also, open source, like Linux. Anyone can change the graphic anyway they want as long as they give Larry Ewing and Linux the credit. The fact that Ewing used GIMP to create Tux.
Actually, I think it’s a great Border Collie name. I plan on using it someday when I have a boy that fits the name. Black with a white chest and black front legs maybe white front feet. Cute, huh, maybe even cuter than a penguin.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Blog 11
How do companies who sell open-source products (like Red Hat) make a living?
Apparently, this has been a hot topic on the internet for several years. Personally, I never knew it existed until this class. I had not even given it a thought until you asked the question.
In my research, I found a white paper by Robert Young, who is a founder of Red Hat. It was pretty interesting and can be found at http://oreilly.com/catatlog/opensources/book/young.html . I am sure you have already read it.
To make money with open-source products you need to sell a service not a license. Red Hat has several subscription support levels. They, also, sell a middleware called JBOSS and they get paid for their consulting and integration services. Red Hat actually incorporates hundreds of open source solutions into one software package. Then they sell the support to that package.
Red Hat initially started out as a software distribution company selling cd’s of software. Linux was one of their best selling cd’s and they saw a new potential in the marketing of open-source software. They have done a bang-up job of marketing their brand. I would bet that more people know of Red Hat than Ubuntu or any others.
A lot of companies in the open-source realm do not charge for the desktop version of their software but they do charge if their software is used commercially. They get around the licensing issue because the customers are able to modify the source code.
Some other ways of making money are certification programs and training programs. That’s big money if you ask me. I have an MSCE+I in NT 4.0 that cost close to $20,000 to get and a solid year of my life and then it was obsolete the next month. I started to get a certification in SQL Server, finished one test, and they were already moving on to the next version and I decided to get off the merry-go-round. At the time I was working and attending UNR part-time and I thought I would put my degree on hold because it was going to take me so long to graduate since I was just taking 2 classes a semester. I thought I would be smart and take a fast track and get certified. I just did not realize that the certification path never ended. At least getting a college degree path ends eventually. What do they say, hindsight is 20/20. Actually, I can’t complain because I doubt I would have the job that I have today, if I did not get certified.
Do I get 10 points for BS'ing?
Apparently, this has been a hot topic on the internet for several years. Personally, I never knew it existed until this class. I had not even given it a thought until you asked the question.
In my research, I found a white paper by Robert Young, who is a founder of Red Hat. It was pretty interesting and can be found at http://oreilly.com/catatlog/opensources/book/young.html . I am sure you have already read it.
To make money with open-source products you need to sell a service not a license. Red Hat has several subscription support levels. They, also, sell a middleware called JBOSS and they get paid for their consulting and integration services. Red Hat actually incorporates hundreds of open source solutions into one software package. Then they sell the support to that package.
Red Hat initially started out as a software distribution company selling cd’s of software. Linux was one of their best selling cd’s and they saw a new potential in the marketing of open-source software. They have done a bang-up job of marketing their brand. I would bet that more people know of Red Hat than Ubuntu or any others.
A lot of companies in the open-source realm do not charge for the desktop version of their software but they do charge if their software is used commercially. They get around the licensing issue because the customers are able to modify the source code.
Some other ways of making money are certification programs and training programs. That’s big money if you ask me. I have an MSCE+I in NT 4.0 that cost close to $20,000 to get and a solid year of my life and then it was obsolete the next month. I started to get a certification in SQL Server, finished one test, and they were already moving on to the next version and I decided to get off the merry-go-round. At the time I was working and attending UNR part-time and I thought I would put my degree on hold because it was going to take me so long to graduate since I was just taking 2 classes a semester. I thought I would be smart and take a fast track and get certified. I just did not realize that the certification path never ended. At least getting a college degree path ends eventually. What do they say, hindsight is 20/20. Actually, I can’t complain because I doubt I would have the job that I have today, if I did not get certified.
Do I get 10 points for BS'ing?
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Blog 10
What is Samba? Why could you or your business use it?
Samba is an application that runs as a service on Unix/Linux computers. It uses SMB (server message block) to communicate with Windows based computers or network. It is primarily used as file and print servers. Windows users don’t even know the file or the printers that they are using are on a Linux server.
NV Energy could use Samba/Linux (but they won’t) to house their network printers or they could also, use it to authenticate Active Directory logins.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
2009 USBCHA Sheepdog Finals
Here is a link to a new video on the 2009 USBCHA Sheepdog Finals. I hope to have enough points to compete this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6XubwLwrw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6XubwLwrw
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Blog 9
There are many organizations and companies who use Linux. Find a few of them and tell us who they are, how they use it and anything else you can find out about it.
First, let me say that finding up-to-date or current information on the internet is quite a challenge in itself. Almost all of the company information that I found was from 2000 to 2003. I finally found some from 2008.
3Tera is a software company that uses Linux to build their applications. They build an one called AppLogic and they are on the forefront of ‘Cloud Computing’.
Alfresco is a software company that has a product called ‘Enterprise Content Management’. One part of this application is a shared editing tool that was built using Linux. It's for sharing documents on the web (like Microsoft’s Sharepoint application). This is being used to manage content on Facebook.
Amazon is a huge open source user. Amazon is trying to get into the Cloud Computing with Elastic Compute Cloud. It is also, providing storage services with a product called Simple Storage Service. They have come out with a device called Kindle eBook that is a really cool mobile Linux device. Now that I have found it, I want one. It might have to wait since it costs $359.oo.
First, let me say that finding up-to-date or current information on the internet is quite a challenge in itself. Almost all of the company information that I found was from 2000 to 2003. I finally found some from 2008.
3Tera is a software company that uses Linux to build their applications. They build an one called AppLogic and they are on the forefront of ‘Cloud Computing’.
Alfresco is a software company that has a product called ‘Enterprise Content Management’. One part of this application is a shared editing tool that was built using Linux. It's for sharing documents on the web (like Microsoft’s Sharepoint application). This is being used to manage content on Facebook.
Amazon is a huge open source user. Amazon is trying to get into the Cloud Computing with Elastic Compute Cloud. It is also, providing storage services with a product called Simple Storage Service. They have come out with a device called Kindle eBook that is a really cool mobile Linux device. Now that I have found it, I want one. It might have to wait since it costs $359.oo.
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