Re: The best of times, the worst of times
From: Gerard H. Pille <ghp_at_skynet.be>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:15:54 +0200
Message-ID: <4f90642b$0$3105$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be>
Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Even a brief overview of DBA job postings on Dice and Monster will show
> that the demand for skilled Oracle DBA people has gone down dramatically,
> at least in New York City area.
> I expected seeing a demand in people with MySQL or PostgreSQL going up
> accordingly, but that isn't happening, either. This started to happen in
> January and February. What is going on? Does anybody have an explanation?
> Articles like this are also alarming:
>
> http://www.cringely.com/2012/04/not-your-fathers-ibm/#comment-206300
>
> Is that caused by US elections and corporations trying to escape the
> increased taxes that some people foresaw or is that a global ocurrence?
>
>
>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:15:54 +0200
Message-ID: <4f90642b$0$3105$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be>
Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Even a brief overview of DBA job postings on Dice and Monster will show
> that the demand for skilled Oracle DBA people has gone down dramatically,
> at least in New York City area.
> I expected seeing a demand in people with MySQL or PostgreSQL going up
> accordingly, but that isn't happening, either. This started to happen in
> January and February. What is going on? Does anybody have an explanation?
> Articles like this are also alarming:
>
> http://www.cringely.com/2012/04/not-your-fathers-ibm/#comment-206300
>
> Is that caused by US elections and corporations trying to escape the
> increased taxes that some people foresaw or is that a global ocurrence?
>
>
>
Surely you know that our job is delivering a service?
With the western economy gowing down the drain, the demand for our services diminishes.
Soon we will be able to prove that we are better than the indian ITers, when the companies over there are looking to outsource their IT. Received on Thu Apr 19 2012 - 14:15:54 CDT