I also want to say Thank you Shawn for your valuable contribution. On the note on Resumes -I thought I would put it out here. My company is looking for an excellent MySQL DBA (Oracle and MSSQL experience a plus) Please send me your resume.
Thanks! Sabika On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Shawn Green (MySQL) < shawn.l.gr...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 10/19/2011 13:29, Michael Dykman wrote: > >> While we have him online, I think we could all take a moment and be >> grateful >> for the contributions of Shawn Green. >> >> When I see the Oracle-bashing on this list, I am often reminded that we >> still have a hard-core MySQL developer who has survived the ride to Sun >> and >> again to Oracle who is still providing us with timely expert advice. >> >> Please, all of you, think twice before cutting up Oracle for their lack of >> MySQL support. Shawn has been plying this list forever doling out sound >> advice and I have never heard him complain as we as we indirectly besmirch >> him over and and over. >> >> Thank you Shawn. >> >> > I am very humbled and honored. Thank you very kindly. > > We, the old teams from MySQL, have fought very hard to maintain our > identities as the product itself has changed ownership. Some battles we won, > some we did not. Our support and development teams are still predominately > intact since before the Sun acquisition. We have had to learn how to use > some new tools and adjust to different corporate philosophies but our > dedication to our customers or the quality of the product has never waned. > > Certainly there have needed to be adjustments along the way. Some of them > were painful (the loss of our old friend Eventum still haunts us today) some > were easy (like having essentially one tier of support services for all > customers). > > I don't get as much time to spend monitoring this list as I used to. I > contributed to this list before I worked for MySQL and I will continue being > part of this community as long as MySQL is part of my life. If you would > like to join me and become part of the MySQL team in any capacity, we are > always scouting for new talent in all geographical areas. Please do not post > any responses or resumes to this list or send them to my personal account. I > can no longer accept them (it's one of those policy changes I mentioned > earlier). Instead please look for a listing that you may be interested in at > http://www.oracle.com/us/**corporate/careers/index.html<http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/careers/index.html> > and start the process there. > > Again, thank you very much. > > Humbly yours, > -- > Shawn Green > MySQL Principal Technical Support Engineer > Oracle USA, Inc. - Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together. > Office: Blountville, TN > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?** > unsub=sabika.makhdoom@gmail.**com<http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=sabika.makhd...@gmail.com> > >
