Re: Nature of Oracle-l has changed

Jared,
 I agree that the development has declined at a lot of sites. We are a VB shop and damagement has decided to outsource the hosting of our reports database and the web based development of the application to access the reports database. I soon will go from a 84 GIG database to a 5 GIG database that houses 5 in-house applications. I guess that it is cheaper to outsource than pay for training of your employees.   All of the changes in the bottom line on the financial reports have a lot of people scrambling to increase their knowledge in different arenas to enable their continued employment. If you look at the different threads that have been in the email's, it points to the fact that a lot of oracle users are testing and trying the newer OS's and Oracle combinations. I think that this points out the fact that a lot of the DBA are trying to increase their knowledge and worth as well as damagement trying to show a better bottom line.

 The great advantage with this list is that a lot of users have tried a lot of different combinations (OS,hardware,Oracle versions) and have solved a lot of problems. The questions are posted and there is an abundant supply of answers available.

  Times are changing and the dinosaur will become extinct if the don't become like a shark..

My 2$.
Ron

>>> jkstill_at_cybcon.com 08/22/03 02:19AM >>>

Has anyone else noticed?

Not so long ago, we saw quite a few more questions about such things as data modeling, application security architecture, physical database design, and Oracle Designer

Not so much anymore.

Do you think it's because there are so few development projects taking place? Seems like in house development died with the dot bomb and has not begun to recover.

I know at my place of employment there is very little development, but that is due more to the size and nature of this place, as well as the management. ( they don't like in house development :( )

Now I spend my days with stuff like making NetBackup work with Oracle, migrating SAP all over the place and keeping things running.

Not that we haven't always done those things, but I miss some not having a good development project. Ah, to do some real data modeling again.

Just some food for thought.

Jared

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