Re: job market for oracle developers?

Thanks to ED for this post. It's gotten good response and has been very interesting for me to read.

After seeing a lot of these comments, I'll have to ask ED what his short term (1 yr) goals are ? want to be a server (PL/SQL, UNIX), or a Client Developer ( forms, Visual C++, j2ee).

If you've got a year and at least want to be able to work independently, you'll have to choose now. With over 12 years Oracle experience, I've had to choose recently because Oracle has just too many products to try to keep up with. I'm going to stick with mostly server side stuff; DBA, UNIX, JAVA, and one client 9ias Portal. I've got Forms 2/3/4/little 6i, but have decided I've got to leave some things behind if I want to remain competent in an ever changing environment.

Having said that, I've got a top 4 for you in order of easy - difficult:

TOP 4

>Well Ed,
>
>Most of the Oracle development I'm seeing is moving towards Oracle ERP and
>Web ( Portal). If you want to be in the slipstream of of this new market
>direction, I'd suggest some target technologies:
>
>REQUIRED
>----------------
>SQL
>PL/SQL
>JAVA/HTML/XML
>SHELL SCRIPTING ( KORN, and PERL is making a comeback so it's certainly
>worth looking into)
>UNIX ( Solaris is hotter than HPUX right now, but jump at the opp to get
>into MQSERIES )
>
>OPTIONAL
>----------------
>DEVELOPER 6i ( If you're going to do some Oracle Client development)
>9iAS Portal ( Web development using Java and database components)
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>if you can get these down and get a little experience behind you, you'll be
>in tremendous demand.
>
>R. Earl Johnson
>Database Technology Consultants
>
>Ed-D wrote in message ...
>>x-no-archive: yes
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>>I'm learning sql and SAS as part of an Oracle Developer class I'm taking.
>>The only IT experience I have (if you can call it that) is in Project
>>Management and Web Development. I also have basic UNIX skills. I'm
 picking
>>this stuff up quickly and really like it...I also think I'm a natural at
>>programming.
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>>All that aside, would there be any kind of demand for a person like me? I
>>know the job market is bad, horrible even. Perhaps it would be a good
 idea
>>to do some kind of internship first? Can anybody advise?
>>
>>Much thanks in advance.
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Received on Wed Jul 24 2002 - 17:55:17 CEST