Re: No future for DB2

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1122533361.487428_at_yasure...
> rkusenet wrote:
>> This article is very bleak about future of DB2. How credible is the
>> author. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1839681,00.asp
>
> Graph the calendar year vs. the average age of DB2 developers and DBAs.
> Do the same for the other major commercial RDBMS products. You will have
> your answer.
>
> It is not that DB2 is technically incapable of competing. Rather IBM
> is presiding over an aging baby-boom workforce. Speaking only from my
> experience in the US ... a large number of colleges and universities,
> including mine, have active programs teaching SQL Server and Oracle.
> I can not think of a single one teaching DB2.
>
> I left Fortran for a reason.
> I left COBOL for the same reason.
> Those working with DB2 should take a serious look at which is more
> important ... product loyalty or paying the mortgage.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan

Even if your premise is correct (which I believe is greatly exaggerated), your conclusions are backwards. If there are more DB2 DBA's retiring, then there will be a shortage of DB2 talent and more job opportunities.

Given the ease of administration improvements in 10g (not to mention the improvements that are no doubt coming in future Oracle releases), as 8i and 9i installations migrate to 10g, that alone will create at least a 30% theoretical reduction in the number of Oracle DBA's needed. I expect this trend to continue as Oracle fends off MS SQL Server. Received on Thu Jul 28 2005 - 02:03:13 CDT