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RE: My career path and Oracle?

From: Ron Rogers <RROGERS_at_galottery.org>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 13:42:08 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00591B83.20030506134208@fatcity.com>


Come on Dick, you know what I'm talking about. It's those 9 numbers you remembered years ago with hopes that there would be some funds to pay for the fish bait when you retire. It's the part of the pay check that never reached the max payment for a year. Ron

>>> DGoulet_at_vicr.com 05/06/03 05:02PM >>> Before what begins??? *-)

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 4:32 PM
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Mladen,
 Ahhh.. to be able to look forward for the next 10 years of work... I remember those days. Now it's 3 years before Social Security begins. Ron

>>> MGogala_at_oxhp.com 05/06/03 03:47PM >>> In 10 years I'll become a PHB. There is an infinite demand for that.....

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Phone:(203) 459-6855
Email:mgogala_at_oxhp.com

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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:47 AM
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Friends and Pals,

I dont think Oracle does not wipe out soon in next 10 more years. Please
correct if I am wrong.

Regards
Rajuveera

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> From: Denham Eva[SMTP:EvaD_at_TFMC.co.za]
> Reply To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 6:51 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: My career path and Oracle?
>
> Hello Gurus,
>
> I've been wondering about something, at best this can be dangerous
:-) Is
> anyone else been doing some serious career path evaluation?
>
> I have been wondering seriously about the future of Oracle, I don't
know
> if it is just my imagination but Oracle's market share seems to be
> dwindling rapidly, both on the small to medium enterprise but also
in
the
> high end enterprise scope. I think someone on this group mentioned
the
> other day that Oracle's revenues and market share base was begin
held
up
> by existing customers, and was not experiencing any noteworthy
growth
in
> new customers.
>
> Lets face it Oracle is pricing itself out of the market, DBs like
MSSQL,
> MySQL and Postgresql are beginning to out price it BIG time. Many of
these
> DBs are beginning to add features to their feature lists that equal
> Oracles.
>
> Am I the only one who is wondering if re-skilling now while I can
and
> still have a job, should be a serious consideration for this years
career
> planning?
>
> Please share your views. I would love to hear how some of you feel
on
this
> subject.
>
> Regards
> Denham Eva
> Oracle DBA
>
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