Re: Oracle 10g - Diminishing DBA roles ...

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:16:17 GMT
Message-ID: <Btp4d.957$nj.122@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

Daniel Morgan wrote:

> Hans Forbrich wrote:
> 

>> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Michael D. Long wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message

>  I've often debated whether software development shouldn't be a


>>>> licensed profession.

>>>

>>>

>>> It should be.

>>>

>>> But unlike medicine, law, and engineering, it may be too late to take
>>> the necessary steps.
>>
>>
>>
>> Never too late ... it took hundreds of years befor engineers created
>> professional associations.
>> A major challenge I see would come from Microsoft, as they have worked
>> very,
>> very hard to make programming (as well as computing in general) a
>> commodity
>> though such wonderful products as Visual Basic. They stand a lot to
>> loose.
>>
>> <sigh>
>> /Hans

> 
> 
> Agreed. The fact that I am not optimistic doesn't mean, as we have
> discussed, that I do not see it as a goal.

A former automobile repair consultant and engineer (my Dad) would relate, with some degree of disdain, that the guy who cut your hair had to be licensed but the guy who fixed the brakes on your car did not (and at that time and place, it was always guys). For all I know, car mechanics need to be certified "on-board computer" geeks these days.

I do remember reading a document twenty-some years ago titled something like "Toward a Software Profession" by an Ada consultant (name forgotten, paper not findable) which strongly advocated professional software licensing (programming, administering, whatever) as an industry standard.

So if it took hundreds of years for engineers, maybe only decades for software professionals. After all, more and more people I know are getting OCP'ed.

--Mark Bole Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 20:16:17 CDT