Re: database market share 2003

From: robert <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com>
Date: 22 Jun 2004 19:51:55 -0700
Message-ID: <da3c2186.0406221851.6f1a1940@posting.google.com>

nobody <nobody_at_devnull.org> wrote in message news:<40D8B1C4.6050100_at_devnull.org>...
> Daniel Morgan wrote:
> > Mark Townsend wrote:
> >
> >> Blair Adamache wrote:
> >>
> >[SNIP]

> >
> > There is zero demand for classes on any of these products at the college
> > and university level too so I am not surprised.
> >
>
> Uhm why would a University waste time teaching a CIS / Software
> engineering major about commerical products?
>
> You teach a student theory not applied applications.
>
> Oh? You meant SAP taught to Accounting grunts?
> You must have gone to a trade school. ;-)
>
> Sorry but the point is that You teach theory in schools not
> applications. But thats a whole different thread. ;-)

may be not. and you may be joking. but one of the few things i remember from my college days is this (from a professor, in passing):

tradesmen are guided by experience. professionals are guided by theory. Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 21:51:55 CDT