1) If you Google around you will see Dave attended 12 Open Source events, in 2 countries, in the last two years alone. http://goo.gl/CYfVJi
Including:
PHP UK Conference 2012
North Texas MySQL Users Group, 2012
POSSCON 2012
SOUTHEAST LINUXFEST 2012
NorthEast PHP (Boston)
LinuxCon 2012 (San Diego)
2013: DjangoConf, Scale10x, PHPtek 2013 (Chicago)
...
Sometimes one needs to get off the chair and meet people. The fact that you didnt know Dave or his talks speaks more about a certain anti-Oracle bias in the mainstream IT press than about Dave not doing his job.
To Alec:
1) If you Google around you will see Dave attended 12 Open Source events, in 2 countries, in the last two years alone. http://goo.gl/CYfVJi
Including:
PHP UK Conference 2012
North Texas MySQL Users Group, 2012
POSSCON 2012
SOUTHEAST LINUXFEST 2012
NorthEast PHP (Boston)
LinuxCon 2012 (San Diego)
2013: DjangoConf, Scale10x, PHPtek 2013 (Chicago)
...
Sometimes one needs to get off the chair and meet people. The fact that you didnt know Dave or his talks speaks more about a certain anti-Oracle bias in the mainstream IT press than about Dave not doing his job.
FC