RE: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

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class=590212716-25052001>I can remember as far back as version 7.3 where Oracle was touting that
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class=590212716-25052001>"you won't need a DBA for our new database".  It hasn't happened yet,
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class=590212716-25052001>has it?  Oh yes, it's easier, but we're still here!
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class=590212716-25052001>And besides, what were they offering in the cold call?  Replacing your
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class=590212716-25052001>DBAs with their DBAs.  At (probably) twice the price.  Outsourcing Lives!
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class=590212716-25052001>Just my $0.02 worth.
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class=590212716-25052001>Mike
 

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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Gary Weber 
  [mailto:gweber_at_cji.com]Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:27 
  AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: 
  Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...
  Very 
  stupid thing to do by Oracle, considering the fact that many Oracle purchasing 
  decisions are made by Oracle DBAs. To shut us out like that will most 
  certainly have an effect on Oracle Sales. Hell, you don't need me anymore? 
  I'll switch political sides and jump the ship to IBM, or <gasp> 
  Microsoft...
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  Far 
  as their "superior" i-dba team, I sure hope those are different people from 
  the ones you get on first line of Support...
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  Gary 
  Weber
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  PS. 
  Or maybe we should all become Oracle salesmen 
  (saleswomen)....
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com 
  [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Bowes, ChrisSent: 
  Friday, May 25, 2001 12:02 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list 
  ORACLE-LSubject: Fire your DBA's you don't need them 
  anymore...
  My boss just received a cold call from Oracle that 
  he let me listen in on.  They have a new push on for their i-dba support 
  package.  For just a little more money (they did not define little), "we 
  will replace your dba's with our superior support team that will monitor your 
  database 24x7 and proactively eliminate problems.  This will allow you to 
  redesign you office to offload these cumbersome DBA tasks and allow your 
  workers to do other things.  You will never have another database 
  problem."   I felt good when my boss indicated that we had no base 
  problems but based on this, I guess we will have to become sqlserver DBAs or 
  <gasp>  developers...    :)
  Ahh, Friday, wonderful Friday,  it seems like 
  you've been away all week... 
  --Chris <FONT face=Arial 
  size=2>Chris.Bowes_at_Kosa.com