Give me strength...

[Combuster]

I know of a few shops here in Denmark. Close enough?

I know one, only 20km into dutch territory

[JamesM]

I have visited three companies , most of the companies use .Net as the primary platform . Most of the companies in technopark (Trivandrum , India ) mainly use Windows as the primary development platform . The bottom line is that if you want to make money writing software,you need to target windows . Most of the electronics companies however use embedded Linux . I wont say that Windows is perfect . Most of my senior collegues working in Microsoft will humbly to agree to this all well . They get angry only when you make pointless and utterly ridiculous comments . Win32 API is well documented and it should'nt be dififcult to port older windows programs to newer versions of windows .

Open Source software is great for education . Microsoft has released many componets under Shared Source License . Free Software concept is great if the world is ideal ; unfortunately it is not . It is easy to see that people who originally wrote the software never gets any money , Only the distro fellows (they makes minor mods and sell it ) get the money .

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Sandeep Mathew

Hi,

/agree totally for the most part, with the exception of this:

The bottom line is that if you want to make money writing software,you need to target windows .

That should be amended to "software for the home consumer market", because most enterprise apps (even for some part .NET as Microsoft's common language runtime is available for UNIX targets) use some sort of UNIX flavour. As do most embedded devices (as you mentioned).

Web development, which is also a big player in development, is really OS agnostic - you need to buy a Windows box to test IE, but development can be done on anything.

(Oh, and btw, to back up a previous statement, I've just read in a confidential email that all US VMWare employees' company laptops are MacBooks.)

[DeletedAccount]

It is very difficult to get a C++ job . I mean to get a C++ / system side job ,you need more experience . No company usually recruits freshers for a C++ job . This becomes a sort of chicken - egg problem . You need a job to get experience but you will get the job only if you have previous experience . Most companies randomly assign jobs to different people , We really dont have a choice here . I know a friend of mine who is a great game programmer , but is now is working with something he likes least . He really doesnt have a choice . We all need some money for survival.