Welcome to Polaris Database Systems

My name is Stephen Bourgeois, President and founder of Polaris Database Systems. I've spent the last decade as a student of the Oracle database.

After receiving my BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, I landed my first Oracle job working with Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) version 6.2 for Encore Computer Corporation in Marlboro, MA. By the time I left Encore in 1994, I was stationed at Oracle headquarters in Redwood City, CA as the lead engineer on the Encore Oracle7 Parallel Server port.

I then joined Oracle Corporation's Architecture Services consulting group in Boston, MA, where I had the opportunity to utilize my OPS skills and learn a heck of a lot about how to implement Oracle solutions on just about every major server platform out there.

Polaris Database Systems is an enterprise that I am very excited about. Since I have worked in the database industry, there has always been an inadequate supply of qualified Oracle database administrators (DBA's) in the marketplace. At Polaris, our vision is to fill this need by offering on-site and remote database administration services staffed by a team of experienced DBA's

Our plan is a simple one: to offer high-quality service at a cost-effective price. We strive to focus on customer satisfaction and create long-term relationships with our clients.

According to a salary survey by salary.com, the median salary for an Oracle DBA working in the United States is approximately $74,000. The total cost to the employer is even higher when the additional expenses for recruiting and benefits are taken into consideration.

Prospective employers need to ask themselves if it is worth the effort of struggling to find a moderately skilled DBA and annually pay $100,000+ for the privilege? Is the security, scalability, and availability of the databases critical to your business worth trusting to someone without the proper skills and experience?

At Polaris, we strive to give our customers a high return on investment from our services. When our clients are pleased that we've found a way to make a critical database environment fail over to a disaster recovery site more quickly than ever before or we've reduced the I/O utilization of an ERP database by a terabyte per week, we know we've done our job.

Sincerely,

Stephen M. Bourgeois
President, Polaris Database Systems, Inc.