Re: drupal.org MySQL database issues

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Going back on-list
>
> 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.

Well... I don't know, I think many that *could* be postgresql employees
choose not to because, there is a bundle of money to be made here.

Joshua D. Drake

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