Jonathan, have you thought about joining the KC Chamber of Commerce?  You
could spearhead the new campaign to compel everyone who lives here to commit
hara-kiri! ;)

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jonathan Hutchins
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:41 PM
> To: Bryan Richard; kclug
> Subject: Re: An Introduction - Moving to KC
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Richard" <bryan@pyzine.com>
>
> > The sad result of my stay on the West Coast is that I don't really
> > know what the tech climate of the Kansas City area is. I realize it is
> > probably a bit slow, but I'm more interested in what companies are
> > using, how Linux is doing, what the general feeling on Open  Source is,
> > &c.
>
> Slow.  Um, yeah.  Geologically slow.  Dead doesn't begin to describe it.
>
> Companies use COBOL.  They've finished the Y2K modifications of
> their 1970's
> code and have fired all the contract programmers.  Some are still moping
> around, trying to find work, so if there were a market it would be
> saturated.  System administration is done by the guy in the Accounting
> department who read a book from Microsoft.  Hardware repair is the guy in
> Sales who can usually fix the copier.  If they need anybody with an  IT
> title to deal with the outsourcing or third-party service, they can always
> send a secretary to a certification program.  She will become the CIO and
> make all technology decisions, usually based on the color of the case and
> how cool is the logo.
>
> Open source is that radical communist stuff they do out on the coasts, we
> don't have anything to do with such things, and anybody attempting to load
> such viral software on a company owned PC will be shot.
>
> This is a great place to move to if you want to get out of IT and
> become an
> insurance salesman.  Or maybe real-estate.
>
>
>