Re: [NOVICE] PostgreSQL Training

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Bret Busby wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Bryan Encina wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the result of the lack of formal, structured, PostgreSQL
> training and certification, and the apparent resistance to these, in
> the PostgreSQL community, is that, like the Perl people, the result is

I don't think there's a resistance to them except that setting up training
and certification costs money. Some of us don't do this as a job at all,
some are in relatively small companies doing support/hosting and some are
in unrelated fields and just use it. The first and third group aren't
generally going to run training, it's outside what they do. The second
group generally either doesn't have the money to do it, or at least needs
it to be truly obviously profitable before they can really consider it. A
small company that puts down a few months to set up training and then
doesn't get enough people to break even goes away, it's a pretty big risk.