RE: My career path and Oracle?

Sadly, it does, because of the intellectual snobbism. Other then that, "PhD" is
a scientific title which is only meaningful within a research team. The meaning of
the title is to signify that the one who has it has earned the right to head a research team and that no further guidance and mentoring is needed. That is the
same as a military rank in a large corporation. I know a guy that everybody referred to as "captain" and he was working in a software development company
in NYC. What is the meaning of a military rank or research rank in a civilian
software development company? Should I drop down and give him 20 when PhD tells
me to?

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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I am not convinced that having a Ph.D. helps one's career, outside of the academic realm of course.

Patrice.

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Is PHB - Bachelor of Philosophy or Pointy Headed Boss (Dilbert)?

Ken Janusz, CPIM

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> In 10 years I'll become a PHB. There is an infinite demand for that.....
>
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
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> Friends and Pals,
>
> I dont think Oracle does not wipe out soon in next 10 more years. Please
> correct if I am wrong.
>
> Regards
> Rajuveera
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> > From: Denham Eva[SMTP:EvaD_at_TFMC.co.za]
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> > 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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