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 <sfaroult_at_oriolecorp.com> 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.
> >dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> ><mailto:dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com>
>
> 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
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