Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

Hi Philip,

    The cost has nothing to do with the amount of effort that is required to do the job. It is, pure and simple, a function of big company politics. Where a small company would just tell the support person "hey, good news, you are not supporting Solaris as well as Linux customers" the big company establishes a new support group. This gives the Director of Support the opportunity to increase his/her budget, promote a bridge partner, and hire the youngest children of his neighbor or sister. Please remember that in most big companies the more people who report to you the more you get paid, therefore, it is in your best interest to hire as many people as you can. (In one Fortune 500 company I am familiar with a Vice President promoted his go-fer to a director level position with the duties of keeping the VPs cars washed and tuned and playing golf with the VP at least twice a week.

    Gee, I didn't realize the Sybase was in that much trouble.

regards
Jerry Gitomer

Philip Brown wrote in message ...
>On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:06:55 -0400, jgitomer_at_hbsrx.com wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>> Having worked for a couple of computer manufacturers I can attest to
the
>>fact that for a vendor of mission critical software the major cost of
>>software is documentation, training, support and maintenance -- not
initial
>>development. ...
>
>So tell us how documentation, training, etc are going to differ between
>sybase-solaris/sparc, and sybase-solaris/x86
>
>particularly since they already have to have a "fix stupid intel hardware"
>support group
>
>having worked with both, I would say "no additional support whatsoever"
>
>
>> In addition there is the problem of once you commit to a
>>platform you can't abandon it -- you are committed to support the platform
>>for the foreseeable future.
>
>funny, sybase just abandoned a few platforms within the last year, in its
new
>releases :-)
>
>
>>Philip Brown wrote in message ...
>>>On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:59:47 -0400, jgitomer_at_hbsrx.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>mkx_at_excite.com wrote in message <376a6b16.26926988_at_news.iag.net>...
>>>>>
>>>>>It seems weird to me, but all of the major players in the database
>>>>>game are releasing Linux versions regularily, while practically
>>>>>ignoring Solaris on Intel. Why not supply both?
>>>>
>>>>Could it be market penetration?
>>>
>>>Don't see why. If they had to make a true new version, I could think
this.
>>>But it's JUST A RECOMPILE!
>>>And they are having the linux stuff downloadable, so it's not like they
>>>have to set up media production facilities.
>>>Some bizzare politics going on.
>
>
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Received on Wed Jun 23 1999 - 07:34:18 CDT