As for Jeff Holt, I believe that a person of his stature needs to be taken seriously and not lectured "how are things done in Postgres community". I am rather confused by the thinly veiled hostility toward Oracle. In my opinion, Postgres community should be rather welcoming to Oracle people like Frits Hoogland, Frank Pachot or Jeff Holt.
I think that you're a little mistaken, the hostility of the "gurus" is not exactly against Oracle guys,
but rather towards anyone who is not a "committer". Just follow the pgsql-hackers list, and you'll see that newbies are very unwelcome,
whether they're really newbies like me, or they're really teachers.
