RE: Career Advice

Wow... as talented and knowledgeable as you are, you are one really bored DBA. You must work alone, or be self-employed.

Or maybe you are trying to tell me to read between the lines...

In any case, I won't get into a silly argument with you.

Thanks for your advice,
Saira

-----Original Message-----
Mladen Gogala
Sent: December 17, 2003 1:49 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Have you ever considered a career in country music? Try getting "Stand By your man"
just right and the rest will come. You have to learn both kinds of music, country
and western. May Jake and Elwood be with you.

On 12/17/2003 12:44:28 PM, Saira Somani-Mendelin wrote:
> As an applications analyst/junior dba, I feel I need to learn more but
> I'm not sure of the direction I should take, so I'm asking for advice.
>
> Should I become interested in Oracle Apps? Or should I learn another
> suite like SAP or Siebel or PeopleSoft? The difficulty is that my
> company does not use any of these. We use a smaller package by Tecsys
> called Elite and they don't have as many customers - or should I say,
as
> many customers with deep pockets.
>
> I know I can get my hands on a working copy of SAP, what about the
> others? I believe you can purchase an evaluation copy of Apps from the
> Oracle Store. Has anyone actually tried to train themselves on any of
> these products? Has anyone installed Apps at home for testing?
>
> Sorry if this question has been presented on the list before.
>
> Thanks,
> Saira
>
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