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

[Henry Poras]

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

I think they run Metalink. Anyway i-dba sounds like something from an old Tarzan movie. i-dba u-pooh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:27 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

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 Weber

 

PS. Or maybe we should all become Oracle salesmen (saleswomen)....

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]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
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