Re: Oracle 10g - Diminishing DBA roles ...

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:02:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1095815036.36768@yasure>

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:16:53 -0400, "Michael D. Long"
> <michael.d.long-nospam_at_comcast.net> wrote:
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>>I've often debated whether software development shouldn't be a 
>>licensed profession.

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> It probably shouldn't because that would create a major shortage in
> developers. My suspicion is that currently maybe less than 1 percent
> would be worthy of the license.
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> --
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

I do recall some years ago in Israel the doctors went on strike and the death rate dropped. A severe drop in the number of developers, at least getting rid of those still writing version 7.3 code, wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

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