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To: Punko who wrote (2634)	12/16/1998 4:49:00 AM
From: hasbeen101	Respond to of 3194

Punko, Nice to see you back on the thread. I notice from the Oracle thread that you've made a few bucks lately on Oracle. Re: the skills shortage. I was asked today whether my company has trouble recruiting people with ObjectStore skills. I said that knowledge of ObjectStore is about the lowest item on my list of priorities. Any computer science graduate should know the basic principles of virtual memory and databases (e.g. transactions etc), and that's all you need (apart from C++ !) to use ObjectStore capably. Granted, C++ is not an easy skill to learn, but if someone has C++ and a computer science education, they can be fully productive in ObjectStore after just a few weeks. On the other hand, it seems to me that to get reliability and scalability from an RDBMS, you need a football team of database administrators. If you use an ODBMS, you don't need the DBAs any more (you just need software engineers). I think the problem is not so much that there is a shortage of software engineers, rather that there is a shortage of senior DBA type people who have the insight and flexibility to realise that ODBMS has just made them obsolete. These people fight tooth and nail to block progress (i.e. ODBMS). Still, it would help if the Universities taught people C++ before graduating them in computer science.