Re: Certification Available +Pronounce

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:41:29PM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
> david(at)fetter(dot)org (David Fetter) writes:

> > I'm not sure I understand this question. Could you explain what
> > purposes and whose interests such a certification, if it existed,
> > would serve?
>
> There's a clear set of steps...
>
> 1. Create PostgreSQL Certification Program
> 2. Collect underpants^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcertificants
> 3. ___ ____ __ _____, ___ _____ ___
> 4. Profit!^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPopularity!
>

This is unfair. Large companies frequently require such
certification availability in order to consider a technology ready
for "Enterprise" use. The value of that technical judgement may be
0, but the adoption-rate value of it is not.

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