Re: Oracle on Demand - Kiss your DBA jobs good-bye.

On Sep 13, 12:35 pm, Mikail Dellovich <f..._at_foo.com> wrote:

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> Following are my opinions only:
>
> I think we will enter a world where an employee will be more and more
> working under conditions of great stress and uncertainty regarding his
> future. It's unfortunate but this also makes for an apathetic employee
> and early burn-out candidate who will be less and less concerned about
> doing his job well and more concerned about his personal survival in a
> increasingly godless, dog-eat-dog society where hedge funds and private
> equity firms will gut companies for sport as an extension to their
> senior level college project with no regard for the quality of life for
> its employees. You will be competing (survivor style) in a Darwinian
> fight for fewer resources as the very wealthy and unscrupulous separate
> you from your happiness and dignity as they inequitably horde wealth.
>
> Having people take ethics courses is useless because you cannot teach
> ethics to someone who doesn't have character. Try to teach ethics to a
> Walmart manager, crack dealer, mortgage broker, crack whore or Oracle
> salesman.
>
> Also it would have to have been part and parcel of ones life from the
> beginning. Just the same way one cannot buy one's way into the patrician
> society in this country, because every aspect of the society would have
> to have been imbued into you from a young age. You will be found out as
> a fraud quickly and referred to as upscale trash with money.

Is there something related to oracle in this posting somewhere?

As far as oracle on demand goes there's a lot more smoke and fog floating around than real fire as far as I can tell. Received on Thu Sep 13 2007 - 18:46:15 CDT