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Can someone please wake me in 15 years when this all comes to pass? I'm STILL waiting for XML to rock my world.

For the record: 1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters. Google it.

Here in Sydney (Australia) we're paying between $1.50 (regular) and $1.80 (premium) per liter. So that's about AUD$6.50 per US...

No Shaun, this is my own little personal joke. As you will see from posts in...

Aw, look at how Steve just "took the piss" with his Office comment. See, Americans DO get satire!

So I went back and re-read the eWeek article Steve linked to in his editorial. It's a very one-sided piece, don't you think? "Here's what CIO's measure their IT hires...

Accounting says: IT = cost center.

Shareholder says: maximize profits.

CIO says: freezing wages; outsourcing 1/2 the team.

And I'm supposed to be enthusiastic about this?

Produce a product riddled with problems and then force people to buy your heavily marked-up and monopolized insurance to cover the faulty product. What a concept.

I would say software companies charge more AND are more profitable because they are able to make switching costs very high. Think Oracle --> SQL or PeopleSoft --> SAP. Big...

Software as a business. Not a bad one to be in, frankly:

Exxon-Mobil profit margin: 10.85%

BP profit margin: 8.40%

Royal Dutch Shell profit margin: 8.35%

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Microsoft profit margin: 28.33%

Google profit margin: 24.89%

Oracle profit...

I really must be missing the point because of the 1000's (yes, 1000's) of DBA job descriptions I have seen over the years they all have hard technical skills as...

Hmmm, soft skills. Icing on the cake, really. Those soft skills aren't going to help you at 3am when you have a 30 spid blocking chain on your 24/7, $100,000...

I have distilled my 6 points for the budding DBA...

1) How to create a database (seems obvious, but nevertheless...)

2) How to backup and recover a database (with options)

3) How to...

Ah yes, the mythical 6% interest. Good luck finding a US bank that will give you that kind of low-risk return. CD rates haven't been close to 6% since the...

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard the phrase "skills shortage"....

This is what they say: "We can't find any qualified applicants."

This is what I hear: "We can't...

Hmmm....Steve. The Wiki article you linked to clearly says:

"The neutrality of this article is disputed.

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