RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

This may be related in a roundabout sort of way...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010613/80/bv1jv.html <http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010613/80/bv1jv.html>

Wednesday June 13, 01:55 AM
Top tech salaries down for first time since 1985 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Salaries for the highest-paid bracket of information technology managers have fallen for the first time since 1985, according to a new survey.
Benchmark salaries for chief information officers at large companies are down nearly 37 percent from last year, according to the survey released on Monday by management consulting firm Janco Associates. By the same measure, which is intended to capture the average pay on offer for top-performing executives, salaries for CIOs at medium-sized companies were down 31 percent, M. Victor Janulaitis, chief executive officer of Janco Associates, said on Tuesday.
Although the survey only looked at information technology managers, the trend is much broader, he said.
"Executive level salaries are decreasing across the board because they're so tied to the stock market and to the company's performance," Janulaitis said.

The worsening economy is driving down corporate earnings and lowering performance-based bonuses which have historically been used to reward top executives.
Large companies are freezing hiring and extending the periods between normal salary increases, while others are outsourcing Internet functions rather than paying people to manage them in-house, he said. Janulaitis expects that California's energy crisis will also have a negative impact on executive salaries down the road as companies are forced to take even more drastic measures, such as moving out of state or cutting salaries, to offset higher energy costs.
"There's a strong indication that even if the economy turns around in the third or fourth quarter a lot of these positions will not recover as rapidly as before. People won't go out and spend money on IT professionals and new software upgrades," he said.
While top technology positions have being adversely affected by the slowdown, the survey found that certain positions dealing with newer technologies like Java and e-commerce applications were actually seeing small increases in the top pay offered. The survey, conducted by Park City, Utah-based Janco, included information about more than 70 U.S. and Canadian technology executive positions.

Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
Technology Services        | Services technologiques
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Joe S. Testa [SMTP:jstesta_at_dorseyplus.com]
        Sent:   Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:16 AM
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        Subject:        OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

         Did anyone else on the list get this stupid spam besides me?

        thanks, joe


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