Good Evening,
First let me say that I am in no way speaking for my employer. The situation
and issue raised here, while definitely real and occurring in real time, is
posed merely for discussion and maybe just to help answer my own Oracle
question not found in any manual. I welcome all feedback, positive and
negative.
Situation:
Two long time Oracle DBAs, midway through their careers, secure a steady
consulting contract, incorporate, and build a relationship with a major
mid-west university to train students and the local IT community through
their continuuing education program. They have been successful in consulting
and training, through hard work, long nights, intelligence, and diligence.
They now employ a unix sysadmin and 12 oracle dbas as consultants and
instructors (WOOHOO), have published several SQL and Relational Database
design books through MacMillan and SAMS, and per semester, typically sell
out 60-70% of seating for their full range of SQL, PL/SQL, Designer,
Developer, DBA, and Unix courses. Let me also add that these courses are
hands-on Oracle training, not designed to teach someone to take a
certification exam, but designed specifically to enable the student to apply
the learned skills immediately on the job. They were completely constructed
from the ground up by the founders, contributed to by the variously
experienced instructors over the last four years, and are grounded in the
real life Oracle experience of the founders and instructors.
Problem:
Oracle Education, I guess now deemed Oracle University, has decided that
their *RetroActive* Software licensing agreement does not allow for third
party training. The local university, of course, is withdrawing from the
Oracle portion of the relationship, while continuing the relationship with
my employer for other types of training. Oracle is agressively pursuing an
"Oracle University" relationship with the school to offer Oracle training.
Question:
With today's shortage and projected, continued shortage of competent IT
professionals, can the industry afford not to provide the best Oracle
(majority database market shareholder) training possible, to the
self-motivated, individual developer and future dba (yes, that was me), and
the Non-Fortune 500 Oracle shops out there with limited new technology
budgets, who need to train their IT staff ?
Are we developers and dbas, who have based our careers on Oracle, or are
moving in that direction, time-constrained AND money constrained, to be
limited solely to the very expensive "Oracle University" training,
affordable only by our employers and only offerred during the day when most
developers and dbas are working hard to support their Oracle systems?
And personally, I see two sides of this argument and just want to see what
the community thinks:
Is this the best course of action, for the long term, for Oracle and the
Oracle Software community?
Again, I appreciate any and all feedback.
Good Evening,
Dan Mills
OCP DBA Consulant and Instructor
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