Anonymous
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:38:37 -0700
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Alina Swietochowska spewed into the bitstream: <snip> > I personally believe very strongly that POMS General Linux I and General > Linux II is what is going to be needed mostly, and I can't see much demand > for any of the other papers in any large volumes if at all. Too much > fragmentation, for the moment anyway. I reckon the problem is in WHO exactly > is certification aimed for. Most of the Linux users (at least in the UK) are > still either individuals or small/medium companies. These will not > want/afford to pay for the exams at all. Large corporates can afford, but > they are unlikely to use uniform distribution and follow a single programme. > I may be wrong, but I can't envisage a repeat of what used to happen with > Unix in the old days, where BIG BOSS would decide to go for HP, Sun, IBM or > any other, and all the support, training , etc was sourced with the same > provider. If it does happen, ie a company adopts one distribution across the > board, they are likely to take all the services from the provider (including > training) and will not worry too much whether it has LPI's seal of approval. How then, do we account for the demand? I sent an email out yesterday which included no less than 5 major requests from training companies and .edu's for an approval process for courseware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chuck Mead / Director of Corporate Relations / Treasurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Linux Professional Institute / http://www.lpi.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ________________________________________________________________________ This message was sent by the linux-cert-corprel mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail -s '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]