I’ve been doing a fair amount of technical research lately, thinking about my career. Let’s face it, it’s a Microsoft world, but when it comes to big iron, it’s usually a *NIX derivative. All said, MySQL is great, but PostgreSQL is the new heavyweight contender. And Perl or Python apparently.
So here’s my quick list (including some personal pet projects):
- OpenBSD – for all of my
pfneeds - OpenSolaris – because ZFS is amazing and this site runs on it
- PostgreSQL – it’s the new thing
- Python – I’ve got friends at Google and they swear by it!
- Perl – this is going to take much more work
- CUBRID – Need to run it on a *NIX box for replication testing, but there’s that annoying Java dependency
- CouchDB – Its not SQL, it’s MapReduce
