Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis, has been hired by VMWare to work on Redis full-time. The development pace surged as a result. Joyent did the same with R

Salvatore Sanfilippo, creator of Redis, has been hired by VMWare to work on Redis full-time. The development pace surged as a result. Joyent did the same with Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js It’s possible, but keep in mind that those two are great developers, not everybody can do what they did.