Re: OT: Job Posts

On 01/08/2017 12:22 AM, Dimensional DBA wrote:
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> Not quite true.
>
> I spent over 23 years with CFO’s who wish to ensure that they do not
> go to jail for some violation of some law or compliance regulation.
>

It's not an unreasonable wish, although there have reportedly been great advances in the comfort level of prisons here in the US. However, any ACID compliant relational database can help them with that. Not using Oracle is still not illegal and CFO's do not go to prison for not choosing Oracle. It's still only a misdemeanour.

> They have had the tendency to simply spend money to solve a problem,
> with cost not being in the top 5 things they are looking at relative
> to the problem.
>

You and me are apparently not hanging out with the same CFO's. The CFO's that I know have been mostly concerned with the shareholder's money. One could even think that being careful with the shareholder's money is their main job function.

> ..and yes I have had other companies go the completely other way in
> whatever is the cheapest thing available that will partially solve the
> problem and then the personnel have to figure out how to fill in the
> gaps that are not solved.
>

Yes, it is hellish our there, once you get off the Oracle yellow brick road. However, MS SQL and DB2 have been around for quite some time and it's not so hard to find qualified personnel. This thread is about Oracle jobs and it is a verifiable fact that there are less of them. People are turning to other things, like SQL Server or SAP Hana. I wonder why is that?

> In a lot of cases all the gaps are never filled in and there is just
> the concept of ‘wing and prayer’ that nothing bad will happen and
> hopefully for most involved that you will find another job before
> something goes really wrong.
>
> There is never just one answer.
>

Mathematics teaches us something else. That phrase about the postulated existence of an alternative answer is just a phrase, just like "always look on the bright side of life". Whistling will not always turn things for the better and will certainly not make Oracle any cheaper. Customers choosing other databases may make Oracle cheaper. That is what is known as "market". At any rate, I am not paid by the Oracle Corp, so I don't have to buy into the Oracle religion.

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