duffmckagan <mckagan at gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently into Engineering, and I am working slowly on > my Knowledge / Know-How of Linux. > I am eager to know about the Job Opportunities for people > who have considerably good knowledge in Linux. This thought > has popped up in my mind, due to the reason that I was > watching out my Local LUG, and somebody quoted like..."There > aren't much Job Opportunities for Linux Knowledge compared > to the Knowledge based on Microsoft Software. Linux > won't fetch you those fat salaries that Microsoft would > offer, so unfortunately, you don't get what you deserve, > with Linux, as the basic concept lies in Free Stuff." I guess they haven't seen the salary surveys as well as number of jobs for qualified Linux people. But many people are ignorant of the fact that UNIX existed before Linux, a UNIX-like system, so they dismiss Linux (because they have already dismissed/ignored UNIX). UNIX sysadmins have always led Windows sysadmins in compensation in ever single salary study I've seen. In many cases, Linux admins are lower than UNIX admins, but still much higher than Windows admins. I want to say the last one I saw was IDG, but even the IEEE has started to query IT professionals too. Ironically, in the "TCO game," most companies respond that the ratio of UNIX admins is increasing due to Linux admins. But the number of UNIX/Linux admins per system is still lower (i.e., more systems per UNIX/Linux admin), which ends up being "cheaper." I.e., the total aggregate salary for UNIX/Linux sysadmins for the same number of systems is lower than Windows sysadmins, but because UNIX/Linux sysadmins can administer more systems per employee, the higher pay rate is easily justified. Personally, regardless of whether I'm coming in as a network architect, sysadmin, Solaris guru, MCSE, etc..., the #1 thing that is on the mind of every single employer is my Linux background because 97% of enterprises are adopting Linux, over 40% in the datacenter. It might not be en masse or to the level of sales of Windows, but in growth of units, that's what drives hires. Because companies are suddenly finding out they have Linux, but they don't have the resources to support not only what they have -- but what they must adopt in the near future. I haven't seen Linux professionals go unhired because of lack of jobs, only lack of experience. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)