Jeremiah Peschka is joining Quest Software. Que? Oh yes…Jeremiah is joining Quest Software. Read about it here, and here. But hold on Christian…you haven’t learned diddly from the grand experiment! You are meeting your own definition of insanity sir. Au contraire…au contraire. Yes, Jeremiah is joining us, but it isn’t to take over Brent’s job, just his budget.
As I have been talking about lately with anyone who will listen (my 4 year old daugthers seem to be the only ones listening and even they listen to me for about 30 seconds before tuning out) we have a tremendous opportunity in the non-relational distributed database world to build and educate the community. We wanted someone with a passion for community, a passion for RDBMS, a passion for development, and a passion for learning about new technology. Fortunately, we did not need to look. Brent, Andy and I had already been talking about how we might evolve the role as Brent was moving on to pastures new and Jeremiah’s name came up. Then, one morning, as if by magic (although maybe suggested by one Mr Ozar – don’t know???) a hilarious email appeared in my inbox. It was from Jeremiah and it listed out why he would be right for the role and why he would be different from Brent. I was laughing hard. To be honest, if the email had been about why Jeremiah would be same same we would have gone no further, but he laid out what he could bring to the party, and we had plenty of chips but no dip, so we were hooked.
So, over the course of the next few months we look forward to working on and unveiling our evolved strategy for servicing the community. Don’t fret that Jeremiah will be turning his back on the SQL community – won’t happen; he’ll keep one foot firmly in that camp, but don’t be surprised if he starts trying to talk you in to giving Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase or Hadoop a whirl. Don’t be surprised when he turns PASS into the largest NoSQL conference in the world.
Ok…had you there for a second right?
