[dba-Tech] DB/OS market statistics

Hi Arthur:

I think they are. At one time I was a fully certified SCO Unix installer and
administrator and I recognize virtually everything in Linux. I think a guru
in Linux is guru in UNIX. I bet it is just because Linux can be free and
UNIX can cost a lot of money and that makes it prestigious.

The other point of the .Net languages is odd considering there is nothing
that VB.Net can do the C#.Net can not, they can both be in the same
assemblies at the same time (mix and match) and their performance times are
identical. 

The whole thing relates around perception, prestige and that managers that
hire the techs still have real idea about technology. When a manager asks
whether a database can be programmed in MS Access that means he is looking
for a system around 5 to 10 thousand as opposed to 20,000 to 50,000 that he
would expect to pay for a Java/Oracle DB; add UNIX into the mix and you
could add another 50,000 to the price.

Perception = Reality.

Jim   

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:37 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] DB/OS market statistics

Several things puzzle me about these graphs and their market-reflections. I
would have thought, for example, that Linux and Unix were interchangeable,
that anyone good at Linux could apply for a Unix gig and vice-versa. But
compare the gaps. Similarly, there are abundant code-translators that will
switch VB.NET to C#. In fact, if you look at the two languages as in the
tutorials supplied by MS, they are remarkably similar and it's no surprise
that a program could go through and make the changes from one language to
the other. Find the line-terminators and substitute semi-colons; flip
declarations around slightly and lose the "Dim" word; wrap blocks in curly
braces; etc. How hard is that?

Admittedly some constructs are trickier, but it doesn't take very long
looking at the step-by-step tutorial code to see the similarities. And yet
the marketplace feels a greater lack of supply for C# than VB.NET, and also
pays about $20 an hour more for C# too, judging by my local marketplace.
This goes to prove, methinks, that elitism too has inheritance. C# is for
"serious" programmers; VB for -- hmm, what's the opposite of serious?
Amateur? Trivial? Casual? Pop? Anyway, you get my drift.

Arthur

On 3/16/08, Tina Norris Fields <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
>
> Hmmm, verrrrrry interesting.  So, we had better upgrade our Java and C++
> skills, along with our Oracle and MS SQL skills.  I just started a Linux
> course.  Looks like that might have been a smart move.
> T.
>
>
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