In House Programming VS. Oracle COTS (HR) solution and DEMAND

[osiris2k7]

This is my first time posting here, but I been unsuccessfully trying to find information about Oracle HR outside of the Oracle website. I am currently an Active Server Pages (ASP) programmer that works with VBScript, Visual Basic, HTML, SQL etc. I also play with ASP.Net and PHP on the side. Our head boss,which is not the one I directy answer to, has made the decision to switch to an Oracle COTS solution rather than having in-house web based solutions in order to save money. I don't know much about Oracle outside of them having DBs and applications, but Oracle HR and Oracle Discover are some of the buzzwords I heard going around when it came to us. I am mad because they are going to make me work fulltime in this shop. Knowing that I will no longer has access to source code or databases makes me rather disappointed. Will becoming an Oracle "configurator" decrease my job marketability.

Scared Web Developer

 

[SpiderElls82]

Probably not. They'll likely ask you to design a more user-friendly (niche-friendly) interface that would correspond to your company's business. The Oracle database and entry screens CONTINUALLY get updated where I work. So, while your job might lose some of its entertaining perks, you probably won't lose much marketability.

 

[osiris2k7]

Thank you for your advice.