Re: Postgresql Certifications. - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

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Richard T. Romanik
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----- Original Message -----

From: Robert Treat

To: Marc G. Fournier

Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org ; Jonah H. Harris ; Dave Page ; luckysharma@gmail.com

Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 1:27 PM

Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Postgresql Certifications.

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@vale-housing.co.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. 

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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