[ale] Has the IT market bottomed out?

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Joe at orado.localdomain.private
> [mailto:Joe at orado.localdomain.private]On Behalf Of Joseph A Knapka
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:09 AM
> To: Mark E. Schill
> Cc: jeff hubbs; Tommie M. Jones; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Has the IT market bottomed out?
> 
> "Mark E. Schill" wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah,
> > 
>> I was planning on looking for a house in May, but that of 
>> course has been put on hold indefinitely. The other thing
>> that drives me crazy is that lack of work. I am incredibly
>> bored since I lost my job and I can't spend money on doing
> anything.

> Write a killer open-source app, release it, and watch the
> job offers start rolling in...

For anyone interested, I've got the beginnings of just that.  I'm not a programmer though, so need one or more good coders to finish it and polish it up.

Basically, it is a basic replacement for ACT! 2000, using PostgreSQL for the back-end, and a web front end (mainly php, with some java script).

We already have a template for dumping an ACT! database, and a perl script for importing it.

There are some bugs, and it isn't finished, but it is very useable - we have been for over 6 months now.

If anyone (or more) are interested in discussing this, email me privately for details.  I can even arrange for a guided tour on-line, if the interest is serious.

Charles



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