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Monthly Archives: November 2008

IT Offshore fears overblown, labor shortage grows

17-Nov-08

TechRepublic Editor in Chief Jason Hiner discusses the Society of Information Management’s 2008 IT Trends Survey. Specifically he shows that offshore spending is a relatively small portion of IT budgets, and there is a huge labor shortage in the IT market currently.

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A DB2 DBA responds: Are Proprietary Databases Doomed?

10-Nov-08

Allan Parker of Sun has written a fascinating post on the rising challenge that open source database products (such as MySQL) pose to proprietary products such as Oracle and DB2. I respond from the perspective of a DB2 DBA.

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