Re: drupal.org MySQL database issues

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: drupal.org MySQL database issues
Date: 2007-05-17 16:09:36
Message-ID: 20070517160936.GI14548@decibel.org
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:33:46AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:45:58PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > Another serious issue (at least in the US) is the relative lack of
> > PostgreSQL folks for permanent hire (ie: not contract). Is the situation
>
> An interesting effect of this, in my experience, is that businesses
> also become reluctant to use Postgres because of this dearth of
> available employees.

Absolutely. What's frustrating is that we've got half the equation in
place already: there's at least 4 companies in the US that offer
PostgreSQL training. What we're missing is the advertising to database
folks that there's a bundle of money to be made here.
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