Core skills Anyone interested in setting up a vanilla-flavoured information gateway should be familiar with UNIX and its development environment in general. Knowledge of Perl-style regular expressions will make things a bit simpler. Programming skills and fluency in Perl are necessary for configuring an information gateway to fit a specific purpose, tuning performance and so on. Staff effort Anyone who has the core skills listed above will be able to set up and configure a first gateway in under a week. With some experience it could be done in two hours.
Experience shows that the maintenance of a gateway takes about four hours a week.