The skills situation is a distinct turnaround that is becoming increasingly common as Linux replaces Solaris as the educational version of Unix. Now we're seeing a sea change in what people are doing in college. From its days of being an obscure Unix substitute, Linux has grown to become the standard educational operating system. That circumstance has had a major impact on talent availability. Now nearly everyone has at least been exposed to Linux, and some programmers have used it throughout their college careers.
Support is very good in the Linux environment.
They want to see what the weather is for their local community. The company is looking at adding even more services and more specialized information as a way of growing its revenues. For one thing, the site gives a whole new meaning to the phrase graphics intensive. Since the images are updated at least every 15 minutes, the site must handle millions of new images every day. Not only is the number of daily images enormous but the number of page views can vary from around five million on a typical day to as many as 30 million when a hurricane approaches the United States.