RE: Future demand for DBAs

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

Heck, thats true now in the mainframe world I think.

RF  

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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 9/3/2003 8:54 AM

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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