[Info-ingres] So we advertised for a new DBA...?

[Paul A.]

Absolutely bang-on.

I wonder how many people on this list is new to ingres and how many have 
used it for donkey's years and so has the company they work for?

I suspect very few ingres users are new to the technology in comparison 
to the old-hands.

If a DBA is coming to Oxford University, where could they come from? 
only another company that already uses Ingres and they probably like to 
hang on to their ingres DBAs because they probably are the only one in 
the company that understands it.

Is ingres an oak-tree technology now, or is there a place where the 
green-shoots are?

I worked at Oxford University many years back on the computerisation of 
the SOED. It was an interesting experience.

On 25/04/2018 14:08, Adrian Williamson wrote:
> Actian doesn’t seem to be:
>
>   * Selling the product into any green field developments
>   * Selling to big software houses to  use the product for their
>     customers or their products
>   * Giving it away free to Educational Institutions *
>
> I conclude that Ingres DBAs are not being made any more.
>
> I was asked recently would I advocate using OpenROAD/Ingres in a large 
> scale online development i.e. requiring lots of resource – and I had 
> to say no.
>
> The market is awash with Java / C# / SQL Server / Oracle monkeys, 
> which makes them easy to find and cheap to hire. (if you have the kind 
> of development process control that can sort out the wheat from the 
> chaff before you blow your budget on substandard nine-to-fivers)
>
> It needs an aggressive marking campaign coupled with a product 
> strategy designed to generate long term licence growth.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adrian
>
> * I started on Window4GL and Ingres because Paisley University as it 
> was known had it on a Beta release. It was lab technician who pointed 
> it out too – not part of the syllabus – I got the course rules relaxed 
> to allow its inclusion.
>
> *From:*info-ingres-bounces at lists.planetingres.org 
> <info-ingres-bounces at lists.planetingres.org> *On Behalf Of *Martin Bowes
> *Sent:* 25 April 2018 13:19
> *To:* info-ingres at lists.planetingres.org
> *Subject:* [Info-ingres] So we advertised for a new DBA...?
>
> Hi All,
>
> I’m curious.
>
> We (aka Oxford University) advertised for a new DBA. The position was 
> offered with a salary of up to £47,722pa, full time, 3 years fixed in 
> the first instance. The advert did mention we are mainly Ingres on 
> Linux but with other engines (Postgres, SQL Server) and platforms.
>
> Not one person with Ingres DBA experience applied.
>
> Why? Seriously, I was disappointed.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts they’d like to share on that?
>
> Martin Bowes
>
>
>
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