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[Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>]

Hi all,

I am writing this email as I know there are a lot of people reading this list, not all of them being directly subscribed to the list (Been told many times by people that they are silently reading).

For the past year codecentric has been paying me to work on PLC4X 100% of my time, which was an extremely great thing. It helped get PLC4X where it is now.

However codecentric is no charity organization and I was not expecting this to stay the way it was. Now yesterday I was told, that starting November I will still be having more than my normal share to work on PLC4X, as I will be continuing to have 40% of my time to do so, but for the remaining 60% I have to earn my living by doing paid gigs again. Being at the Frankfurt office this will probably be bank and insurance related. As I have decided for myself to rather give up my job, than ever work for a bank or insurance company again, I would be more than happy if I wasn’t put in the position to have to push that button on my eject seat.

An ideal combination would certainly be doing projects, that use PLC4X and hereby help it mature. Especially the focus on achieving things in these gigs have proven to help a lot with this.

Currently I’m doing exactly that for the pharma giant Merck in Darmstadt and will be doing something similar end of November for Daimler in Stuttgart.

It turned out that the only thing my estimation was completely wrong with PLC4X, was that the small and mid-sized companies would immediately adopt it and I’d be doing most of my paid work helping these smaller companies and that the big players would rather stick to the “safe but expensive way they always did it” … now all our signed contracts and the ones planned for the future are for companies where they don’t come any bigger … well there are worse things to be wrong about. So if the big ones believe in PLC4X I think, so should the smaller ones.

But nevertheless, I have to think about November: So my a little unusual question for an Apache dev-list is: If you are thinking about trying out PLC4X and would be interested in doing a POC or whatsoever at your company, it would be great if you could consider contacting me about this.

Chris