[plug] Consulting

[Simon Scott]

	The RHCE was simply for interests sake, and 4 more letters after my
name :)

	What you said about not promising what you cant deliver is true, and
holds true across all IT and not just Linux Consulting.

	Bright people? Hopefully Ill survive with my IQ of 51 ;-)

	Yeh, the basic idea would be to provide a set of services that I
*can* handle, while developing open source software to extend that range
(and also enabling others to). A recent idea was to write a smallish
application in NCURSES that would sit on a Internet Cafe server and manage
time, cost etc.

	Are most jobs for 'Linux Box with Apache, file share and print
serving'??? 






	From:	Jonathon Bates <batesy at batesy.ii.net> on 18-05-2001 01:03 PM
	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] Consulting

	> Hi guys
	> 
	> Im just wondering how the Linux consultancy game in Perth is
going? Sooner or
	> later Im gonna get sick of the finance game, and thought I might
do my RHCE and
	> break out on my own.
	> 
	> I know small Linux consultancies are doing well OS and maybe even
in the eastern
	> states, but whats the linux take-up in Perth like? Small-Medium
businesses that
	> is?
	> Any experience?

	I can only go on from the jobs I have done in the past. There is a
lot of
	money to be made, from the SME market. The larger enterprises are
more
	likely to employ someone fulltime rather than on a consultancy
basis.
	The RHCE isnt going to be much help, just know your stuff and you
should
	be ok. The other thing you have to remember is that you will be
going up
	against really really bright people, that really really know their
stuff.
	Dont say to your clients that you can do something when in all
reality you
	cant, but saying that, all the SME's will really need is a simple
network
	server, so it wont be overly taxing!

	Cheers
	batesy
	-- 
	Jonathon Bates
	batesy at batesy.ii.net
	"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish."





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