I'm surprised no one mentioned Hadoop or the Hadoop ecosystem? While it's not a
good fit for all workloads, it's technology with a lot of growth potential and
momentum. I would look at that along with all the cloud databases we are seeing
and alternatives like those in the MySQL and PostgreSQL family.
Just my 2 cents, but if you think you have 10+ years left and are looking for
something that might be interesting, check out Hadoop.
-Tom
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On Dec 16, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Tim - thanks for the insightful description of the variety of cloud choices.
From what I'm seeing, most companies are adopting an SaaS-first attitude,
with PaaS where no commercial programs fit the requirement, and IaaS
primarily for migrating existing in-house applications.
If you have a career in IT, you have to adapt to the future. There isn't a
strong future for COBOL programmers except maintaining, migrating. When I
plunged into learning Oracle it was certainly because it had a rising future.
Perhaps someone can speak to whether an Oracle DBA can adapt to the cloud
future.
Otherwise I keep hearing about demand for business analysts and project
managers -- close to the customer is harder to be replaced globally.
Dennis Williams
