…the best possible advice to my customers as a consultant. Speak. I speak at many shows and this is one of the…the audience I get someone who is aware of the problem and is able to answer it… as opposed to many of the…
Post: What I'm looking forward to at Percona Live (MySQL Users Conference)
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Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
… growth of the user base there is shortage of people with significant MySQL Experience and so MySQL Consultants is great way to solve problems for a lot of companies. Marketing Diving into consulting venture of course we have number of plans… be too much business for us, we do not have minimal number of hours at all. Large number of such jobs of course is…
Post: Can having information public hurt consulting business ?
April 30, 2008 By 9 Comments
… ask me if the fact we keep information public can hurt our consulting business ? Lets keep aside for the moment amount of new business publishing this… or on thousands of other sites, or may be they would read some books. Seriously speaking for vast majority of the problems you can…
Post: Onsite and Remote - getting best of both worlds
July 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
… for the team – one of the team members can work side by side with consultants observing what he does and asking the question about the progress. The… example of efficient Multi-Day visit is when there are multiple groups or multiple applications using MySQL – in such case each of the problem areas/groups can gets its own day or few hours which keeps consultant busy. To make a Multi…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
…The value we provide to customers is our depth of knowledge about how to solve their problems. The software we produce is evidence of…and prosperous future for our businesses. Sincerely, The Percona Executive Management Team:…, Vice President of Sales Espen Braekken, Vice President of Consulting…
Post: Sell-an-Elephant-to-your-Boss-HOWTO
August 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
…the optimization in place? This should be expressed in dollars per amount of time (e.g. month). Normally, Percona consultant… you the attention – business is all about making money and no business likes … of reasonable arguments against the problem or the solution. Don’t get discouraged – most of the…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
…of the above. It will always represent our best effort at an objective opinion on the technical merits of the solution, and the suitability for the business… to help the prospect solve their problems in the best way possible….offers of partnerships either turn into paid evaluations on a consulting …
Post: Percona is hiring performance experts
February 13, 2009 By 2 Comments
…the query! Find and fix security problem in my application. Calculate when I’ll outgrow the…consultants to be ready to travel 80% of the time. We do not hire consultants in the way a lot of other consulting…
Post: Site was down today, support and web hosting.
August 31, 2007 By 27 Comments
… I call 1and1 and explain them the problem. The guy checks the system by rebooting it in …problem this is as good as never for any passionate online business. The guy also tells me I can write to the…magic of calming down most of rare offended customers. In our Consulting Work we also follow the same …
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
January 9, 2009 By 4 Comments
…the TODO list. The order of priorities is this: paying customers, obvious needs for our consulting practice, and the …– part of our business is custom MySQL development, after all — but we discount it. The second …in a GA version of the server. Customers pay us to solve their problems now. This …
