Re: The demise of the Oracle professional?

In article <aetgae$g11$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz>, you said (and I quote):

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> I'm hoping it's just because of the dot com crash, and that things will pick
> up, but I'm also in agreement with you that the OCP stuff has skewed the
> market horribly, and for good.

It's a lot more than just that. That's just the convenient excuse. It involves state and federal politics. And a certain political party. Keep your eyes peeled for Graeme Philipson's column in tuesday's SMH Next section. He's started to look into the scam that is DBA and IT contract hiring in general in Australia.

I don't imagine for a second he's gonna be allowed to speak openly as there is w-a-a-a-y too much moolah (and a LOT of politics) involved. But at least he's now got the detailed data and hundreds of e-mails from a large group of people who don't like what they see.

It's very likely that at least something will transpire...

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> Right now, any wannabe DBA who hasn't got good Java skills, or good PL/SQL
> skills, or good anything else skills is doomed. We appear not to be in
> Kansas any more.
>

We never was. But that's a different story, chief. It goes back a long time...

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Nuno Souto
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