Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request

Posted in 2006

Serge Rielau — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:50:10 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Mark Townsend wrote: > Sebastian, Norma J. wrote: >> Is training dollars spent a valid comparison? >> > > I think so and in fact used to use this as a comparison metric (and > still do). But to get around any vendor skew I would compare the DBA > training offered by third party companies such as SAP, PeopleSoft etc > for the different database vendors. And there was never any difference > in the amount or cost of training courses for any one database > environment over another. Frequency of delivery was always another > thing, however. Hmm... but you tend to argue that more training classes is better than less. You like to point to SAP's schedules in particular. An argument I always countered from a TCO point of view. I'm sure I can find the posts on google.. But I've got some O*** ass to kick, no time Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab WAIUG Conference http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2006/Forum2006.html