I agree with you. Today I am working with europeans and I used to work with americans and indians. And I have to say to you that we have really good guys here compared to them. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > As a Service Delivery DBA I take offense to that. It is my experience (with > europeans) that their skills are not great, they work extremeley short > hours, take vacation time every 2 months and earn about 5-10 times what I > earn delivering a very good service (not me alone, of course). So, having > local DBAs may feel better, but there is a very high level of skills out > there and for a very low cost... specially for 24x7 active coverage. > > And 10-30k sounds right for offshoring DBA services with a reasonable level > of expertise. > > cheers. > Alan.- > > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> I can offshore it for less than that. >> But I thought we were talking about a job that requires certain technical >> and IT qualifications, not just picking bananas... >> >> -- >> Cheers >> Nuno Souto >> in rainy Sydney, Australia >> dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> fmhabash wrote,on my timestamp of 17/06/2010 1:28 AM: >> >> Heck ... >>> I can off-shore this job for 10-30k a year!!! >>> Sounds too funny, but real .In my previous company, the decision was made >>> to stop hiring in north America. These are the numbers I was seeing on the >>> the HR requests. >>> >> >> >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > -- Gabriel Hanauer