Re: Future demand for DBAs

 Well, it may at last be the golden age, with EXPERIENCED developers !

 SF

"Goulet, Dick" wrote:
>
> "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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 9:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> 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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