Re: database market share 2003

Daniel Morgan wrote: > Mark Townsend wrote: > >> Blair Adamache wrote: >> >[SNIP] > > There is zero demand for classes on any of these products at the college > and university level too so I am not surprised. > Uhm why would a University waste time teaching a CIS / Software engineering major about commerical products? You teach a student theory not applied applications. Oh? You meant SAP taught to Accounting grunts? You must have gone to a trade school. ;-) Sorry but the point is that You teach theory in schools not applications. But thats a whole different thread. ;-)

nobody <nobody@devnull.org> wrote in message news:<40D8B1C4.6050100@devnull.org>... > Daniel Morgan wrote: > > Mark Townsend wrote: > > > >> Blair Adamache wrote: > >> > >[SNIP] > > > > There is zero demand for classes on any of these products at the college > > and university level too so I am not surprised. > > > > Uhm why would a University waste time teaching a CIS / Software > engineering major about commerical products? > > You teach a student theory not applied applications. > > Oh? You meant SAP taught to Accounting grunts? > You must have gone to a trade school. ;-) > > Sorry but the point is that You teach theory in schools not > applications. But thats a whole different thread. ;-) may be not. and you may be joking. but one of the few things i remember from my college days is this (from a professor, in passing): tradesmen are guided by experience. professionals are guided by theory.