I just got to know an ex-company of mine has undergone bad times. Based in Amsterdam, apparently it was also not spared of the global economic gloom. My buddies , who are still attached to that company, was informed (informally , as I understand) that the company is undergoing a massive retrenchment exercise for the KL office. My guess is that the whole IT team faced the brunt, due to its operation overheads.
Maybe one day I would like to do a research on the value (intrinsic or extrinsic) of having internal IT department. But for now....
This company holds a dear place in my heart as I happened to be the first Programmer/IT staff to be recruited for development purpose. I was given the task to setup the firewall and all the Linux servers. I really treasured those days sweating out the WatchGuard Firewall policies, IBM Blade Servers and the SunFire Server running on Solaris. I also had the chance to do a RAID cluster among all these servers.
And mostly the company opened up my oppportunity to delve into the world of J2EE, playing around with EJB 2.1 (which I really hated at that time.....and to think about it..I still hate it! I love the later EJB 3.0 though..). I was introduced to JBOSS App servers and JMS Queues.
I really hope that those guys can move on seamlessly through their careers! Hold on guys!
Thanks bro.. Wish me luck for getting new job... The road still unclear for me..
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ReplyDeleteTis a dark time for all of us. Just stay calm and don't forget to doa. Keep on persevering.ya!
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