Re: Thanks and how's the job market for Forms?

"Richard" <itdad_at_yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:367d520f.0310210543.326fe316_at_posting.google.com...
> Thanks for all the help and feedback. I'm quickly getting up to speed
> plus relearning PL/SQL since it's been a few years.
>
> Daniel, thanks for the links to the courses, it's something to
> consider.
>
> As for the job market for forms and reports; how is it? A few years
> ago an Oracle developer told me he expected the market to drop out the
> way it did for VB programmers. Too many people, too few jobs and
> falling pay rates. Any comments?

Hi, Richard.

Not sure about abroad (I am in Germany), but I think that the VB situation cannot be compared to Forms. Among 1000 people doing VB (or C or Java) maybe 1 or 2 doing Forms, so there are not *so* many people in that field. However, job are also not as many as in the VB field, because Forms simply is not "mainstream" (which maybe M$ Access sufficient for many poeple out there).

Although Form can be run
against non-Oracle dbs,
I have never heard of such a case in the real world.

Oracle is a special database, and so are the developement tools. So I think it is a rather small market segment.

But my view maybe not that wide, so I would also like to hear some opinions ...

just my 2c
Jan Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 15:55:13 CEST