Re: getting a LAMP job in this economy

Heh. I got my first web development job back when pretty much anyone could hang a shingle outside their door and call themselves a web developer. My company worked in a Linux/PHP/Perl/Oracle environment. While there I learned quite a bit about Perl and PHP and connecting both of them to Oracle, but you're quite right that none of the jobs out there these days advertise for OS skills of any sort. I may end up moving out of the IT field altogether. Things have been pretty tough. Vincent Stoessel wrote:

On another list that I am on someone made this very bold statement: "I've seen a lot of jobs for ColdFusion & Oracle or MS SQL server experience combinations. Don't let anyone fool you, PHP/MySQL is not going to land you a job [;)] " now, as someone that was making avery good living doing Linux based web application development last year and now among the jobless I am beginning to question the validity of having all of my eggs in the LAMP (linux apache mysql php) basket. I just recently built a NT4 to do some win based development on. I still have not installed any development enviroment cause it just feels so alien. Has anyone else out there feeling the pressure of going to the win32 side to pay the bills. Thoughts?

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