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Re: IBM and Oracle - Let's Rrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuumbbbbbbbbbbleeeeeeee

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 09:02:51 -0700
Message-ID: <1178553770.645860@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Bill Martinez wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:
> 

>> In other words ... we don't know anything more than we did before we
>> read this.
>>
>> But for those who have to pay their mortgage and feed their families
>> the only metrics that matter are those that can be found at:
>> www.dice.com.
>>
>> As of 6 May, 2007:
>> =========================
>> DB2 3,419 8.9%
>> Informix 452 1.2%
>> Oracle 17,861 46.7%
>> SQL Server 14,171 37.0%
>> Sybase 2,355 6.2%
>> =========================
>>
>> If these aren't the numbers you're looking at you aren't paying
>> attention to putting the kids through college and your retirement.
>
> Are these market share figures?

Available paying jobs. My criteria and the one I would suggest that should be adopted by DBAs, developers, and SysAdmins. If there are no jobs then I'd rather be on my boat.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Mon May 07 2007 - 11:02:51 CDT

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