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RE: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

From: The Oracle DBA <theoracledba_at_lycos.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:48:05 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0031603D.20010531094054@fatcity.com>

I need to find the article I had saved about Oracle 6.0 (as we were preparing to upgrade from 5.1). It was something about how the 6.0 DBA would be bored and would now be able to help appdev.

Cheers,

Earl

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TheOracleDBA
theoracledba_at_lycos.com



On Fri, 25 May 2001 09:28:53  
 Vergara, Michael (TEM) wrote:

>I can remember as far back as version 7.3 where Oracle was touting that
>"you won't need a DBA for our new database". It hasn't happened yet,
>has it? Oh yes, it's easier, but we're still here!
>
>And besides, what were they offering in the cold call? Replacing your
>DBAs with their DBAs. At (probably) twice the price. Outsourcing Lives!
>
>Just my $0.02 worth.
>
>Mike
>
>---
>===========================================================================
>Michael P. Vergara | I've got a PBS mind in an MTV world
>Oracle DBA |
>Guidant Corporation |
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:27 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>Very stupid thing to do by Oracle, considering the fact that many Oracle
>purchasing decisions are made by Oracle DBAs. To shut us out like that will
>most certainly have an effect on Oracle Sales. Hell, you don't need me
>anymore? I'll switch political sides and jump the ship to IBM, or <gasp>
>Microsoft...
>
>Far as their "superior" i-dba team, I sure hope those are different people
>from the ones you get on first line of Support...
>
>Gary Weber
>
>PS. Or maybe we should all become Oracle salesmen (saleswomen)....
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:02 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
>My boss just received a cold call from Oracle that he let me listen in on.
>They have a new push on for their i-dba support package. For just a little
>more money (they did not define little), "we will replace your dba's with
>our superior support team that will monitor your database 24x7 and
>proactively eliminate problems. This will allow you to redesign you office
>to offload these cumbersome DBA tasks and allow your workers to do other
>things. You will never have another database problem." I felt good when
>my boss indicated that we had no base problems but based on this, I guess we
>will have to become sqlserver DBAs or <gasp> developers... :)
>
>Ahh, Friday, wonderful Friday, it seems like you've been away all week...
>
>--Chris
>Chris.Bowes_at_Kosa.com
>
>
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