American expat having the same nerd shortage in Manitoba, but worse. 1 out of 100 have heard of linux, and 7 out of ten of those will wince&#x2F;sneer when it&#x27;s mentioned. A handful of people use Solaris or AIX (because you don&#x27;t get fired for buying IBM&#x2F;ORCL), but most are windows peasants trying to keep their ASP.NET skills relevant.<p>It&#x27;s like living in 1999 again.