RE: Future demand for DBAs

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:54:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CEA7D.20030903105434@fatcity.com>

"They estimate that by 2010, a quarter of the IT workforce will be over 55 years old."

Well, I don't know about that, but one of those old fogies is right here!!

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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The META Group has released a study that forecasts increased demand for DBAs in the future. They quote the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that forecasts a 66% increase in DBAs by 2010. The two factors that META feels will increase demand are:

1. Increased use of DW
2. Aging workforce They estimate that by 2010, a quarter of the IT workforce will be over 55 years old. The new features to make databases self-managing will only help with lower value labor intensive tasks such as schema changes and performance tuning, not with higher value skills such as design and troubleshooting.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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