Just my 2 cents. Besides outsourcing, technology improvement is another
fact. With advancement of DBMS, less and less routine work will be done by
DBAs. If you compare Oracle 10g with Oracle 8 (or 7), you will see how much
difference Oracle has made in last a few years. This trend will continue.
Therefore, my suggestion is that beside database administration, we, as
DBAs, need to have another skills as well, such as business analysis,
database design, or some programming skills such as C++, Java, or .NET....
I used to work with a lady who was a mainframe administrator. She had a
computer science degree more than 20 years ago with more than 20 years of
experience in IT field. Besides finishing her work, she just played
computer games. If I went to her office, I could see her play games in more
than half occasions. Since she finished her routine work, nobody bothered
her. However, if she is laid off (I hope that won't happen to her), I guess
that it is difficult for her to find a new job since her education and
experience is too old for today's technology.

George



-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Berry
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x80303144.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:17 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: SIDEBAR: IT'S BEEN A TERRIBLE WORKING DAY ....


Except of course for the terrible impact that all these companies
transferring millions of units of home currency overseas has, oh yeah and
the people who are now unemployed in the home country that can no longer
afford the services of the offshoring company, it's quite possibly the most
short sighted thing I've ever seen.

I am surprised that governments aren't trying to do something to prevent it.

It is somewhat difficult to see what they could do though.

Glenn Berry
Senior DBA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Annis [mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x60822518.[Email
> address protected]
> Sent: 28 June 2004 20:18
> To: LazyDBA Discussion
> Subject: RE: SIDEBAR: IT'S BEEN A TERRIBLE WORKING DAY ....
>
>
> This isn't really that different than what happened on the
> late-80's's when everybody was taking pay cuts and lay-offs.
> The employers that stuck it out with their employees and
> treated them well gained some degree of loyalty and are doing
> better today. The ones that jumped on the bandwagon and
> screwed their employees suffered the brain drain and trust
> issues. These businesses became less self-reliant and
> therefore vulnerable.
>
> History is repeating itself! After a period of time this
> off-shore trend will show it's ugly side (duh, people
> thousands of miles way that have no vested interest in the
> job at hand; that don't understand the business) In the
> future These same company's will be scrambling for "on-site",
> or at least domestic help and will suffer because of the
> backtracking they will have to do. The advantage will be the
> ones the "stayed the course".
>
> It's just history repeating itself with a dash of greed.
>
> My two cents
>
> Dave.
>
>


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