Re: Fed Up with being a DBA

Howard,

Any chance of your reissuing your backup and recovery document? It should be standard issue with every installation, and now that you are no longer under the Oracle copyright...

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:3f6628b3$0$14560$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> Noons wrote:
>
> [almighty snip]
> >
> >> It is as though they are selling
> >> a Cray and their customers think it should be used to surf the web. You
> >> can't charge what they are charging
> >> for the RDBMS if they don't take advantage of university programs such
> >> as mine to teach people what's
> >> under the covers. And so far they've shown minimal interest in backing
> >> what we are doing.
> >
> >
> > Oracle, like so many other USA software makers, is NOTORIOUS for NEVER
> > allowing external anything. If it's not invented in-house, it's wrong
> > or it has never existed. The famous "not-invented here" syndrome.
> >
> > I've been dealing with it since I started working with American
companies,
> > back in 1974. It's a pity really. But it's how they all work. The
stuff
> > you
> > see in c.d.ibm-db2 is just another example. Ridiculous. If you EVER
> > manage to overturn it, let me know: I'm definitely interested.
> >
> >
> > Hang in there. What you guys are doing is sorely needed. Stuff
> > what Oracle Education says. (No offence, HJR)
> >
>
> None taken. Why do you think I resigned?
>
> What always got me about Oracle Education was the pursuit of fat margins
and
> revenue, when to my way of thinking, Education should be a loss leader. I
> wouldn't buy a piece of software that I could never get trained on, so the
> existence of a vibrant education department ought to be seen as a spur to
> license sales, not a revenue centre in its own right.
>
> But I fear that's just Utopian old me.
>
> I wonder if product support has to make a profit, too?
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 16 2003 - 08:59:39 CDT