From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, luckysharma(at)gmail(dot)com |
Subject: | Re: Postgresql Certifications. |
Date: | 2006-04-17 17:56:19 |
Message-ID: | 200604171356.19696.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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On Monday 17 April 2006 13:44, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Monday 17 April 2006 12:22, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Robert Treat wrote:
> >>> On Monday 17 April 2006 08:36, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> >>>> On 4/17/06, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> >>>>> Marc already did.
> >>>>
> >>>> I admit, registering the trademark is valid for legal reasons. I was
> >>>> making a point of absurdity.
> >>>
> >>> That is is better to allow companies like microsoft or mysql to become
> >>> the defacto oraganization for getting "postgresql-anything" rather than
> >>> allowing the established postgresql community to have some influence
> >>> over things?
> >>
> >> Hasn't SRA been offering certification for awhile now?
> >
> > Yes (I happen to be a SRA PostgreSQL Certified Engineer, and encourage
> > others to get certified) but (taking Jonah's absurd postulate to the
> > other extreme) if micrsoft were to desire it, they could easily start up
> > thier own certification for postgresql and probably fairly quickly have
> > numbers over SRA.
> >
> > While i don't believe that will happen, there are some scenarios floating
> > around about them doing a msose (microsoft open source engineer) where
> > people would certify knowledge of key components of open source software
> > running on windows platforms or interacting with windows products (think
> > setting up an open source mail system with exchange at the heart of it).
> > PostgreSQL comes into this picture generally as a way to combat mysql
> > from eating up the low end market that sql server used to own. It could
> > lead to some form of embracing and extending of postgresql tied back into
> > thier certification; we wouldn't be the first bsd licensed application
> > that they have gotten involved with.
>
> 'k, and this is a bad thing because ... ?
>
I might be a great thing. OTOH it could turn into a total cluster like the
whole Microsfot/Sun Java debacle. Having some measure of control over what
is deemed to be "postgresql-whatever" is not inherently bad.
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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