On 5/24/2013 10:49 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto.d.s...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> The Greater London Authority is also ditching Oracle in favour of PG. I >>> consulted them while they kick started their transition and the first new >>> PG/PostGIS only project is already delivered. The number of companies >>> ditching Oracle is probably much larger than it seems, giving the dynamics >>> in salaries. The average PG based salary goes up steady, while working with >>> Oracle is going down pretty quick. >>> >>> At least, so it would look from the UK. An Oracle DBA in average is >>> currently offered some 15% less than a PG dba. >> Where I currently work we've been looking for a qualified production >> postgres DBA. They (we?) are hard to come by. > This. The major barrier to postgres adoption is accessibility of > talent. OTOH, postgres tends to attract the best and smartest > developers and so the price premium is justified. This is not just > bias speaking...I work on the hiring side and it's a frank analysis of > the current state of affairs. Postgres is white hot. > > The database is competitive technically (better in some ways worse in > others) vs the best of the commercial offerings but is evolving much > more quickly. > > merlin > They/we are not THAT hard to come by.
It's the common lament that customers have in a nice whorehouse. The price is too high..... (You can easily pay me to quit doing what I'm doing now and do something else; the problem only rests in one place when it comes to enticing me to do so -- money. :-)) -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net /Cuda Systems LLC/
