Re: vendors and the related DBDs

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:33:28PM +0000, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> On 07/08/10 14:21, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> 
> >How do you think vendors could help?
> >    (Giving money?, Giving software licenses? Allocating developer time?)
> 
> If a company would hire/contract DBI/DBD developers to get a specific
> job done, that will always help. Tim offeres it on
> http://dbi.perl.org/support, others would be available, too (e.g. me).

For the record, I've never had any ongoing support contract with any
company for Perl DBI support.

There have been a couple of occasions where the development of specific
new features in DBI and DBD::Oracle were sponsored.  (Things like
swap_inner_handle in DBI and support for LOBs in DBD::Oracle.)

The closest thing to an ongoing arrangement was with Oracle where they
paid me some money to provide nominal support for DBD::Oracle.
That lastest about a year, IIRC, and was a small sum for a small commitment.

Tim.