Re: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

I passed Gary's e-mail around the office and we all had a good laugh. Our consensus was; the support Oracle already provides, our DB's would be down for ages every time there was a problem and the solution would be to recreate the DB.

Terry

Gary Weber wrote:

> Very stupid thing to do by Oracle, considering the fact that many
> Oracle purchasing decisions are made by Oracle DBAs. To shut us out
> like that will most certainly have an effect on Oracle Sales. Hell,
> you don't need me anymore? I'll switch political sides and jump the
> ship to IBM, or <gasp> Microsoft...Far as their "superior" i-dba team,
> I sure hope those are different people from the ones you get on first
> line of Support...Gary WeberPS. Or maybe we should all become Oracle
> salesmen (saleswomen)....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Bowes,
> Chris
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...
>
> My boss just received a cold call from Oracle that he let me listen in
> on. They have a new push on for their i-dba support package. For
> just a little more money (they did not define little), "we will
> replace your dba's with our superior support team that will monitor
> your database 24x7 and proactively eliminate problems. This will
> allow you to redesign you office to offload these cumbersome DBA tasks
> and allow your workers to do other things. You will never have
> another database problem." I felt good when my boss indicated that
> we had no base problems but based on this, I guess we will have to
> become sqlserver DBAs or <gasp> developers... :)
>
> Ahh, Friday, wonderful Friday, it seems like you've been away all
> week...
>
> --Chris
> Chris.Bowes_at_Kosa.com

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