DB2 - Decisions

Couple of years back I was asking my friend some help to learn Java, I got this idea mainly 'cause IBM is a strong supporter of Java (& it's possible to do java programming in mainframes as well). It was a mail conversation & I told him my reason's behind my interest in Java. He just put a reply giving me the right pointers. He also mentioned there's no point in going on learning all the programming languages as there are N possible ways to present the data to the user, but very few ways to manage it.

To quote him "Every fool can Present Data,only few can Manage it.", thats when I really started thinking about the position I (& all similar application programmers) are in. I had got my first IBM DB2 certification the previous month & then I decided what I wanted to be. I got the next certification in another couple of months, now there's just 1 more thing for me to do to move away from application programming. Y'day I started with the preparation for the IBM DB2 DBA cert. I would get a chance to do the right things after that, who knows I might conquer my dream of presenting a paper on DB2 in the prestigious IBM DATA MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE.