The Dallas Morning News: Lagging Job Market Affects Linux Pros, Too

[ Thanks to Douglas D. Darnold for this link. ]

"Linux is pushing into the corporate world as an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system, but experts say the job market for Linux professionals, like the market for all tech workers, is lagging.

"'I am a Linux programmer, and I've been looking for a job for about three months now,' said Jeff Rush, president of the Dallas-Fort Worth Unix Users Group...

"Brian Finley, a contract Linux software developer in Dallas, said that Linux professionals were particularly hard hit by the dot-com crash..."

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