(reposting as a logged in user) I wrote a bit longer response to this: stonebraker trapped in stonebraker 'fate worse than death'

I think I know a bit more about database situation inside FB than Mr.Stonebraker. Go figure.

Before I was in charge of hiring for my team, my managers employed a guy who didn't know anything because they did not check his references for some reason. He would always call me while I was on vacation because a simple procedure that he should have known was confusing him. Later our company cell phones were switched from Verizon to AT&T and AT&T had no signal in the Aosta Valley in the Italian Alps.

That is where I would go on vacations.

So if you have AT&T, go to the lovely Aosta Valley but do not cross over into France or else your voicemail will be filled with messages.