I'd also like to point out that this is least likely to happen if you are a DBA in a federal or state government position (outsourcing to India etc not likely to happen).
mohammed --- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ken - Since you've recently changed jobs, your > >upbeat attitude is > >encouraging. I think you've made a good point that > >jobs aren't always > >advertised. Another point is that when there are > >more jobs than available > >candidates, companies have to advertise strongly to > >fill their positions. > >When there are more candidates than available jobs, > >companies often find > >that people are seeking out the opening before they > >post it. > > > >Patrice - Look at what happened over the previous > >years. In 1999 > >corporations spent wildly on I.T. (naturally when > >the catastrophe didn't > >occur because of the tireless efforts of I.T. > >people, the senior executives > >felt the money was wasted). Then when spending > >would have naturally > >declined, the dot-com madness stuck and things went > >wild. I think we are > >just about to come out of the natural down cycle > >due to the extravagant > >dot-com spending. But now I keep seeing articles > >about how much development > >work is being sent overseas. Has anyone seen that > >affect Oracle DBA work > >yet? > > > >Dennis Williams > >DBA > >Lifetouch, Inc. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dennis, > > Concerning your last question, a young indian DBA > friend of mine in Bangalore was complaining about > the night shifts and all the donkey work Indians > have to perform to keep a 24x7 watch on US databases > ... I would personally tend to use timezones to get > senior DBAs from all around the world ready to help > at normal business hours but I guess that this will > have to wait until costs in India raise to > sufficient levels - which in the end will happen > (take a look at Hong Kong and Singapore). > I indeed believe that the market for DBAs is > going to shrink somewhat. As someone pointed out, > big, pharaonic projects are much less common today > than they were a few years back. A 'mature' database > running stable applications and that you don't want > to upgrade hardly requires on a daily or weekly > basis anything to do that you cannot put in a > crontab file. Moreover, the official Oracle gospel > is of course that new versions require less and less > administration - a claim which provokes more > sarcastic comments on this list than in the upper > management levels. > However, the amount of data which people are willing > to store seems to be joyfully outpacing Moore's law, > and I don't see the trend losing momentum anytime > soon. Expect more work related to architecture, > replication (the days of exp backups have long been > over) and of course performance tuning. It's > probably the junior part of the market which is > going to bear the brunt of the slow-down. Till the > pendulum swings back and makes outsourcing out of > fashion, by which time I hope that India and China > will locally provide enough work for their IT > people, which is more than likely. > > My 0.02 EUR. > > Regards, > > Stephane Faroult > Oriole > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Stephane Faroult > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 > http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web > hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an > E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of > 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information > (like subscribing). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: mkb INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
