Re: database market share 2003

gnuoytr@rcn.com (robert) wrote in message news:<da3c2186.0406221851.6f1a1940@posting.google.com>... > 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. And consultants are guided by money! My Depression-era dad used to say, learn a trade, so you can always have something to fall back on, go to college so you can become a professional - 50% or more of CEO's are lawyers. Get a job and invest in real estate. And you know what? My teaching-credentialed brother-in-law fell back on a trade (appliance repairman for Sears), and is now a retired millionaire. Just like in those millionaire-next-door books. I had a college professor (head of a pre-med program) who more-or-less jokingly denigrated MD's as manual laborers. So there you go. jg -- @home.com is bogus. Internet death penalty for zombies. Hmmm... http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040623/news_1b23spam.html