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| Subject: | RE: GISList: What to do? Internet or database. |
| Date: |
08/15/2001 04:47:47 PM |
| From: |
Gene Stahl |
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While the Internet-specialties will come and go as technology
wanes and waxes, but there will always be a need for DATA, again
in whatever the flavor of the day is (oracle, SDE, access, sql,
blah, blah....)
The cool kids are learning how to manipulate the DATA that the
"grinders" put into databases and libraries to produce alot of
bell-and whistle items that will last until the pentium increases
speeds expotentially, etc...
Build DATA. Its a baseline product that EVERYONE will ALWAYS NEED
no matter how the kool folks, and dot.coms package it.
And if you can learn how to focus the efforts of folks on the
management (database administration) of that data, you're in there.
As the rate of data collected increases due to beter retrieval
capabilities, you're worth will increase.
Unfortunately, most folks still opt for the sexy wizz-bang interactive
visual stuff.
IMHO,
Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Murray [mailto:allison_ross@sympatico.ca\
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:15 PM
Dear Listers:
I need your support to further my education. Please send $100 in small
bills to the address below. IF this is not possible, please e-mail your
"two-cents" to the address above concerning the following. I will attempt to
be brief.
I obtained a bachelors degree in mathematics, concentrating on
statistics. Later, I spent two years in community college here in Ottawa
learning GIS technology. My job experiences include twelve years in the
army (full-time and part-time) and four years as assistant manager of a
warehouse trading in automotive parts. The last employment for which I
received financial consideration was writing for the Smithsonian
Institution. It is now two years since that employment and my attempts to
find work either as a technician or as a freelance writer have borne little
encouragement.
I am considering taking a fast-track computer course to better my
prospects within and without the GIS community. One programme offers
comprehensive training as a programmer specialising in databases: VB, Java,
Oracle in all their glory. The other is in E-business: i-Net+, Java, Perl,
XML, Visual Studio.NET, a bit of Oracle. Both also deal with un-technicals
(?) like theory, teamwork, management issues, blah, blah.
QUESTION: If it were you, which programme would you take and why? What of
their futures? Who does these types of things and what are the cool kids
learning?
Humbly, I await your comments.
--
Ross Murray
40 The Driveway
Ottawa, ON. K2P 2C9 Canada
allison_ross@sympatico.ca
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