Fwd: Re: [Ma-jobs] Not again.... SunRocket?

[Paul D. Bain]

>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:42:48 -0400
>>From: Pete Toscano <pete-majobs at toscano.org>  
>>Subject: [Ma-jobs] Not again....  
>>To: ma-jobs at tux.org
>>
>>*sigh* The wheels are falling off the VoIP company I was working for 
>
Peter,

     Let me guess -- Was that VoIP company SunRocket? I had read that they had encountered patent (or other legal) problems similar to the ones that Vonage encountered a while back.

     If so, then this development is a danged shame. IIRC, SunRocket relied heavily on OSS, including Asterisk.

    See below for more comments.

>> and
>>they laid 25% of the staff off on Friday, including me.  The rest will
>>probably be following in a month or two.
>>
>>I'm looking for a Linux sys admin position, although I'd be happy to try
>>my hand at OS X sys admin work too.  It needs to be full time and I'd
>>prefer it to be with a small-ish company.  Contracting is something I'd
>>like to avoid.  Anyway, those are my preferences, but I need feed my
>>family and they didn't give severance, so if my skills look to be a
>>match for something, please drop me a note.

    Peter, I sympathize with you. I am sorry that you and your family have to suffer in this way.

    AFAICT, the larger problem here is the huge influx of cheap, IT labor into this country from Asia, primarily India and China. The overwhelming majority of that labor is here under these two visas: the H-1B and the L-1. Until those H-1B's and L-1's immigrants are sent home, all of us will suffer from uncertain employment -- unless we switch careers, which is what I am planning to do. I have had it with the IT field. I want to move into either IT sales or IT pre-sales (sales engineer).

    I simply cannot believe the employment situation in the IT field these days. Furthermore, it astonishes me that we IT professionals tolerate this kind of treatment from our politicians. When are we IT professionals going to pick up our guns and march on Washington, D.C.? When? How many of us IT professionals have to languish in the unemployment line before we realize that only violence (e.g., assassinations) will end this immigration insanity?

Sincerely,
Paul Bain

>>
>>Thanks,
>>pete
>>________________>                                Peter J Toscano