Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:

> On 10/12/2005 6:18 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jussi Mikkola wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Well, if the PostgreSQL developers would be hired away from the project
>>> with big money, would that not mean, that the project would be a good path
>>> to earn a lot of money. So, new talented developers could join the project
>>> and see that as a path to high salary jobs??
>>
>> Wow, what a twisted way to look at it ... not entirely inaccurate, but
>> twisted :)
>
> Oracle could even develop an exceptional interest in keeping PostgreSQL alive
> as it's "future DB engineer forge".

Definitely ... get new developers involved over here to 'cut their teeth'
and then pull them over there once they are through the teething period :)
Or, encourage them to work here wihle still in University, learn DB
internals ...

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