Oracle-L: Re: My career path and Oracle?

From: <rgaffuri_at_cox.net>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 06:51:59 -0800
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Oracle seems to have priced itself out of the low end DB market. However, your not going to run high end applications on SQLSERVER or postreGre SQL. The lower end applications generally dont pay as well either.

If you go into the other databases you will probably look at a significant pay cut since the people who use those DBs generally(though not always) dont do anything really high end. You dont need to pay for the best of the best if your doing something simple.

Oracle's market share is not dwindling amongst the high end. It dominates the market. DB2 seems to have a small share, but SQL Server has virtually nothing. You cant run Amazon.com on Windows NT, you cant run Capital One's Data Warehouse MySQL.

It seems to be the IT market as a whole that is horrible with no real end in site. The only bright spot is for US citizens with security clearances, then the market is insane.

Could someone correct me if Im wrong here? I know several of you run your own companies. Im just a grunt.

>
> From: Denham Eva <EvaD_at_TFMC.co.za>
> Date: 2003/05/06 Tue AM 09:21:47 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Subject: My career path and Oracle?
>
> Hello Gurus,
>
> I've been wondering about something, at best this can be dangerous :-) Is
> anyone else been doing some serious career path evaluation?
> I have been wondering seriously about the future of Oracle, I don't know if
> it is just my imagination but Oracle's market share seems to be dwindling
> rapidly, both on the small to medium enterprise but also in the high end
> enterprise scope. I think someone on this group mentioned the other day that
> Oracle's revenues and market share base was begin held up by existing
> customers, and was not experiencing any noteworthy growth in new customers.
> Lets face it Oracle is pricing itself out of the market, DBs like MSSQL,
> MySQL and Postgresql are beginning to out price it BIG time. Many of these
> DBs are beginning to add features to their feature lists that equal Oracles.
>
> Am I the only one who is wondering if re-skilling now while I can and still
> have a job, should be a serious consideration for this years career
> planning?
>
> Please share your views. I would love to hear how some of you feel on this
> subject.
>
> Regards
> Denham Eva
> Oracle DBA
>
>
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My career path and Oracle?

Hello Gurus,

I've been wondering about something, at best this can be dangerous :-) Is anyone else been doing some serious career path evaluation?

I have been wondering seriously about the future of Oracle, I don't know if it is just my imagination but Oracle's market share seems to be dwindling rapidly, both on the small to medium enterprise but also in the high end enterprise scope. I think someone on this group mentioned the other day that Oracle's revenues and market share base was begin held up by existing customers, and was not experiencing any noteworthy growth in new customers.

Lets face it Oracle is pricing itself out of the market, DBs like MSSQL, MySQL and Postgresql are beginning to out price it BIG time. Many of these DBs are beginning to add features to their feature lists that equal Oracles.

Am I the only one who is wondering if re-skilling now while I can and still have a job, should be a serious consideration for this years career planning?

Please share your views. I would love to hear how some of you feel on this subject.

Regards
Denham Eva
Oracle DBA

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