Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Oct 21 20:08:56 CDT 2011
I guess the firms with no employees extend to family businesses. I was truly surprised by how many companies fail within that range. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 4:54 PM To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Big Data, Hadoop,and NoSQL: Relational Model Not Dead Yet? Those are interesting stats which certainly show where the opportunities lie for consultant/developers such as ourselves. 78% of "firms" have no employees. Presumably, these are either accounting entities or people like ourselves. Of those who have employees ( i.e. real world "businesses": 72% have less than 20 employees 98% have less then 100 employees. -- Stuart On 21 Oct 2011 at 12:59, jwcolby wrote: > And of course we have to ask where this leaves the small company. > Notice all of the buzz words relating to IT departments. My client > DIS has 50 employees, and they have a guy who maintains the machines > and a VP over the call center who does much of the IT processing. And > they have me. > > That is not an IT department which can do any (never mind all) of this > buzz word stuff. > > Check this out. > > http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html > > Notice the Employment size table > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > On 10/21/2011 10:57 AM, Alan Lawhon wrote: > > Here's more gas to pour on this NoSQL "end of the relational > > database model" debate. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/3wvflds > > > > Alan C. Lawhon > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-SQLServer mailing list > > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com