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Re: DBA Demand

Posted By: Fernando Nunes
Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2013, at 9:08 p.m.

In Response To: Re: DBA Demand (NEIL TRUBY)

My view on this is very limited... small country, small customers. I have
an hard time finding anyone (except for one big customer) who entitles
themselves as an Informix DBA.
And this is really not marketing bulls*** It really takes less time to
manage, so most peole have several hats, one of which is "informix DBA".

And we can see this in the ads. It's much more frequent to see request for
developers than for DBAs
And naturally the economic crisis (mostly in Europe I suppose) is slowing
new hires.

As for the young people not wanting to learn it, I see that also. They
prefer to take a much less interesting "pseudo-DBA*" for big O then a real
and challenging position as an Informix DBA where they can effectively
learn more about databases.
Meanwhile I have two good examples of young guys, with no real experience
on real systems that started to work with it. They were good and it was
very fast to get them very productive. And they ended up loving the
product. I believe you know one... One of them moved to another area
(security) and the other is an happy Informix DBA.

This is not necessarily bad for the "old" and experienced Informix DBA of
course.
Interestingly enough in the last couple of weeks I received several
requests for upgrades, meetings, more info and so on for "old" customers
that are still running incredibly old Informix versions. This means they've
not abandoned their old systems... they simply run.
At the same time I came across a rather large (possibly) new implementation
involving several distinguishable product features.

* : like executing already made scripts in QA or Prod environments where
they have no autonomy to change those scripts (if something goes wrong they
complain to DEV and eventually call the "real" DBA

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:27 PM, NEIL TRUBY <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote:

> As an employer I find it very difficult to get Informix-savvy staff. Most
> people with Informix experience in the UK (and looking at the demographic
> which attends the IIUG conference as a yard-stick, the US) are now in their
> 40s and 50s at least. Few companies are training up new Informix people,
> and
> few ambitious younger technicians I find are interested in learning
> Informix.
> We find it a turn-off for Oracle DBA interviewees for instance when we
> suggest
> they may have to learn some Informix.
>
> Your question was: is the demand changing, and I think probably it is
> declining gently, but the supply is dropping at least as fast.
>
> regards
> N
>
>
>
> *******************************************************************************
> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
>
>

--
Fernando Nunes
Portugal

http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

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Messages In This Thread

  • DBA Demand
    Harold Luse -- Sunday, 27 October 2013, at 11:03 p.m.
    • Re: DBA Demand
      NEIL TRUBY -- Monday, 28 October 2013, at 4:27 p.m.
      • Re: DBA Demand
        Fernando Nunes -- Wednesday, 30 October 2013, at 9:08 p.m.
      • Re: DBA Demand
        medkba -- Wednesday, 30 October 2013, at 10:51 p.m.
    • Re: DBA Demand
      Art Kagel -- Wednesday, 30 October 2013, at 6:58 p.m.
      • Re: DBA Demand
        NEIL TRUBY -- Friday, 1 November 2013, at 2:20 p.m.
        • Re: DBA Demand
          Martin Fuerderer -- Monday, 4 November 2013, at 10:09 a.m.
    • Re: DBA Demand
      Martin Fuerderer -- Thursday, 31 October 2013, at 5:42 a.m.

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