From: | Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org> |
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To: | PostgreSQL Advocacy List <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Bolder vision of pg certification |
Date: | 2008-05-07 14:19:26 |
Message-ID: | 34C07AFC-B367-49B0-AC91-20C6838385EB@langille.org |
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On May 7, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:57:39AM +0700, Mudy Situmorang wrote:
>>
>> I believe we should take the path of Oracle. The database company
>> that
>> become an Information Company, by their strength in education and
>> certification.
>
> That's not the only thing that Oracle did. There is an important
> difference with Oracle: Oracle Corp can restrict what any of its
> customers say about the database system by virtue of the license those
> customers agreed to, and it can also control what any employees say
> about the system. This contrast is important, because it puts
> practical limits on what an effort in the community can do.
>
> Furthermore, Oracle Corp had large amounts of money to spend on this
> certification effort. The programs you are discussing are expensive
> to operate and extremely hard to develop. This isn't something you do
> in a weekend with your friends, and still have it be valid.
The Original Poster has big plans. Very big plans. Such plans
require very large
wallets. We are not a company. We do not have the funding Oracle
has/did. Mind you, if the OP has these funds, we're willing to
accept them.
I was going to reply in more detail to the OP, but I find myself
occupied with real things in the next three weeks. Not hypotheticals
and nice-to-haves. :)
We need people willing to do heavy lifting. Not heavy thinking.
--
Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
dan(at)langille(dot)org
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