Pythian Group

I just installed a copy of the titular distro last night and have been playing with it a bit. So far it’s been less trouble than I would have expected from a first beta, and runs well. Get Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta 1 here. A word to the wise, this is beta software and not yet ready for prime time.

I installed it on my laptop, I use it for a lot of things but the data is always expendable. I had installed it in a VM a few days previously but that was not as satisfying as trying it in the real world as opposed to the idealized world of the VM.

Test Specs

• Compaq EVO n610c
• Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 – M CPU 2.40GHz
• TEAC DW-224E-A 24x/24x writer cd/rw
• Fujitsu MHT2040A 5400RPM drive
• 512MB DDR
• D-Link DWL-G630 802.11g Atheros AR2413
• ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]

The Install

From the get-go there was trouble. Read the rest of this entry . . .

Hardware

My Dell desktop:

[root@erp RPMs]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
cpu MHz         : 2793.022
cache size      : 512 KB

[root@erp RPMs]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      2073404 kB
...

Operating System

Download Centos Linux, and install the Linux operating system.

Kernel Version

Download kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.i686.rpm and apply with:

$ rpm -ivh  kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.i686.rpm 

The kernel should look like this:

root@erp RPMs]# uname -a
Linux erp.itskills.com 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Oct 5 15:04:03 CDT 2006 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

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Hot on the heels of my publishing our Applications DBA opening in Ottawa, Canada earlier this week, we now have an apps DBA opening in our office in Hyderabad as well.

Needless to say, we are seeing rapid uptake of our outsourced E-Business Suite 11i management services.

I have a senior Oracle Applications DBA opening at Pythian’s office in Hyderabad, India. This opening pays on an international payscale, meaning that I am ideally looking for an elite candidate working for a compensation plan in the 25-35 lacs range TCE. Remember, Pythian is not in India to save money on payroll, Pythian is in India to staff an elite workforce in that timezone. Feel free to apply if you aren’t at the 25+ lacs pa range yet in your career and let us decide.

The candidate I am looking for is delighted and excited with the apps dba workload and does not have aspirations to managing a big team. If you are my ideal candidate, you are the kind of person who thinks implementing Apps on RAC is exciting, or moving a large company’s Apps from Solaris to Linux would be super fun, or even just doing a massive 12i upgrade or installation sounds just dreamy. You will actually be doing these things. You will not have a team of 5-7 people doing them for you.

Working at Pythian is different than working in-house or as a consultant, because you’ll be making your contributions available to each of the customers assigned to your team, allowing you to see more use cases, more technologies, and work with more and varied environments, all the while building interesting and long-lasting working relationships with your peers.

The Hyderabad office is ideally situated in the Somajiguda district of Hyderabad, pretty much right downtown, or as downtown as downtown can be in a city that has a lake smack dab in the middle of it.

We support some of the most interesting and mission-critical Oracle Applications environments in the world, including one that is FDA-regulated in support of a global biosciences company. Meaning lives are at stake. It doesn’t get any more mission-critical, or more personally rewarding, than that.

Top criteria:

• Outstanding Oracle Apps DBA on UNIX skills, bonus points for Apps RAC and major implementation and upgrades experience
• Exceptional troubleshooting, problem-solving and learning skills
• Superior productivity per hour and overall getting-the-job-done-right abilities
• Fluent communication skills in English, both written and oral, are mandatory. Second or third languages are also a huge benefit (we have customers all over the world and are always eager to add a language to our repertoire)
• Core DBA skills are a prerequisite for Apps DBA at this level, but you know that already
• Publications, blogging and presentations experience and interest a plus
• Experience with Oracle Applications Server and Portal a plus
• SAP, Peoplesoft and other ERP experience a plus

Job highlights:

• Work in an elite team of Apps DBAs for an elite group and growing of customers; you’ll learn more here in a year than in any in-house DBA job no matter how long you stay; I personally guarantee it.
• Work and gain valuable experience on every mainstream platform, including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64, Windows, etc.
• Support every mainstream database technology and feature, including Oracle RAC, advanced queuing, advanced replication, every flavour of dataguard, RMAN, streams, etc. etc.
• Work across multiple industries including health care, manufacturing, media, dot-com, education, retail, services, and many more.
• Work in a company that values hard work, not long work.
• Work in a company that will allow you to research and write articles, presentations and blog posts on company time, and pay for you to present your research at just about any user conference worldwide where it gets accepted.

Learn more about Pythian and see our customer list at http://www.pythian.com.

To apply:

Send me an email with a one-paragraph introduction of who you are and why you are exceptional to me at vallee@pythian.com. Feel free to attach your resume in any format (Word, PDF, RTF, ODT, whatever makes you happy.)