>People were even specific about vendors; one was an Oracle DBA or a Sybase DBA.
I can confirm it, anecdotally. I knew a guy who several years ago went to the US on H1-B as an Oracle DBA. And I've heard of and seen ads for other such cases - earlier.
Similarly for PowerBuilder or VB developer earlier, and of course you still see ads for Python / C++ / Haskell / whatever developer.
>People were even specific about vendors; one was an Oracle DBA or a Sybase DBA.
I can confirm it, anecdotally. I knew a guy who several years ago went to the US on H1-B as an Oracle DBA. And I've heard of and seen ads for other such cases - earlier.
Similarly for PowerBuilder or VB developer earlier, and of course you still see ads for Python / C++ / Haskell / whatever developer.