[plug] [link+highlights] Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows

[shayne]

..... Either that or export ourselves...... :)
Apparently the irish still have a hard time getting staff for
the amount of work that goes on there, so apparently immigration is a
sinch. The irish actually are going hard trying to get people to come
back there or move there. Dublin has been refered to as "the silicon
valley of europe", and damned if I ain't an O'Neill, I got family there
too. What on earth am I doin' in this town?!

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 22:16, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 22:06, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> > Y'know, if I earned USD$71,400 a year (AUD$130,305 at today's rates) for
> > what I do, I'd never miss the extra USD$14,444 (AUD$26,361) that I'd rake
> > in as a Solaris sysop. (-:
> 
> I was ircing to an Irish Sun hacker on the GNOME project ages ago, I told him 
> what I earn at UWA. Expressed in pounds it sounds pretty low. His response 
> was "Wow, I wouldn't get out of bed for that."
> 
> My income isn't *too* bad for a Perth admin, in a comfortable job that is 
> reasonably secure. Although it is tempting sometimes to use my EU citizenship 
> and buy a one-way ticket to Ireleand or something ;)
> 
> Okay, so everything costs twice as much in .ie. But I'd still earn twice my 
> AU$ salary in pounds over there :-)
> 
> We need to figure out some way of exporting our IT services to Europe and the 
> US, like the Indians that are doing all the phone support. Euros are much 
> nicer to earn :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Grahame
> 
>