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

"Mark Bole" <makbo_at_pacbell.net> wrote in message news:Btp4d.957$nj.122_at_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
|

Whoa! let's not confuse being OCP'd with being a licensed competent professional!

++ mcs Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 21:28:13 CDT