Pelz-Sharpe Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Apache in the Outer Hebrides

31-Jul-2008

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management,

As we enter the peak of the vacation season, those of us fortunate enough leave the rat race and head off to distant shores. And it was whilst on a very distant shore this past week that I came across an advertisement that stopped me dead in my tracks: check it out here.

We all give lip service to the idea of the global village, and that the internet is redefining the business geography. But to most of us that means little more than outsourcing to India or former Eastern Bloc countries. However, this job is located on the Isle of Lewis, a stunning windswept island in the North Atlantic. Getting there requires a two-hour ferry journey from the mainland (when the weather allows the ferry to run at all). It's metaphorically, if not literally, a million miles from San Jose, London or Bangalore. But looking at the actual job requirements, it's also about as far from corporate America as you could get. No Windows NT here, it's Ubundu, PHP5 and the LAMP stack, fairly cutting edge by anyone's standards.

This may seem just a blog post for the end of a vacation week, but there is food for thought here. If evidence were still needed that the global village is with us and expanding faster than the cubicle paradigm of corporate America cares to acknowledge, this may be it. And what a phenomenal opportunity for a top developer to live "the dream"!

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