New Oracle DBA career outlook

Hi everyone,

Recently I received several entry level job offers right out of college. My Top 3 choices are Info Security Specialist in a Big 5 consulting, other one as an Oracle Developer/DBA in financial industry and the third one as a Java Developer all in the Midwest. (I am about equally interested/experienced in all 3.)

As this is an Oracle forum, could you cast your opinion on a possible Oracle DBA/Developer career VS. the other 2 mentioned. From what I have read in this and other forums, the main pros and cons of an Oracle DBA career path are:

Pros:

• Histoty of high demand and slaries for Oracle DBAs
• Oracle's leading role in the DB market
• etc.

Cons:

• relatively tight Oracle market/relatively high number of Oracle IT professionals/expertise available on the market
• the tendency of Oracle to simplify DB administaration with every new version, thus descreasing the need # of highly paid DBAs req in the future
• Newer overall strategy for companies to decrease the # of DBs in the enterprise to a smaller amount but larger DBs.
• Elison's vision of enterprises outsourcing their storage to Oracle or other ASPs

--etc.

All opinions will be aprecialted.

Josh Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 01:25:53 CEST