Ram K apparently said,on my timestamp of 24/03/2005 12:34 PM: > I was talking to a manager friend of mine. He is of the opinion that > managing an Oracle project is not a big deal for a manager who has > managed a SAP project (I am assuming managed successfuly). 'Assign > different pieces of work to different people and follow-up on things' > seems to be his way of approaching it. that's PM101. Now, what else is new? > I know so many other factors may go in to that than just technical > expertise in Oracle and SAP, but still on the face of it the statement > looks unacceptable to me. Please give me your thoughts. It is unacceptable. The person is a junior PM or an irresponsible one. > SUMMARY: Can a person who has managed SAP projects successfully manage > Oracle project(s), all else being equal. Of course! All that is hard with SAP is asking - and getting! - the absolutely insane prices they want. The rest is just plain vanilla sailing. -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l