Re: contracting & consulting (was "[PHP] Pricing for PHP programming???")

"Benjamin Munoz" <bmunoz@ivtweb.com> wrote: > Great thread. When I was changing jobs in April of 2000, a recruiter told me > that PHP is "cool and all", but there is zero demand for developers of PHP > web apps (in Los Angeles). Interesting. We're located in [not very large, but high tech/internet concentration] Charlottesville, Virginia and there's a pretty significant demand for PHP-based apps and websites. Then again, our target market is small/medium businesses and small internet startups and after assessing a client's needs, working with them to define a solution and developing a proposal that nearly always uses LAMP the clients rarely care what we use as long as we deliver. Sure, larger, stodgier corportate clients with IT departments are more resistent to utilizing PHP and open source technology for their enterprise solutions, but they aren't the only customers out there. > therefore command a higher wage. Demand vs supply, right?. A search today > on monster.com for ASP in LA yields 142 listings, Java yields 262, JSP > yields 32, Perl yields 105, PHP yields 16, cold fusion yields 16. Odd. My search on monster.com for "php" turned up 324 listings. I *wish* there were less - we have listings 135 and 136 and have not found the right candidate yet. -- Steve Werby COO 24-7 Computer Services, LLC Tel: 804.817.2470 http://www.247computing.com/