At 11:51 AM 8/17/01 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>However, like I said, my interests are mostly mine alone. I do not
>speak for business people. If someone wants to do certifications, as
>long as it doesn't affect me, fine. I will think it is silly, but
>whatever people want to do, they should do.
Quite. Which is why I think the whole conversation is a non-starter. If
someone wants to do Perl certifications, let 'em; the market's perfectly
capable of doing this by itself. There's no reason those certifications
should be administered by the people in the Perl community who hate the
idea, so why the attempt to convince them to do something about certification?
>But as soon as I am forced to take some exam just to get considered for
>a decent job is when I will start to get *really* annoyed, and annoying.
In my wildest nightmares I cannot imagine this happening. The areas where
certification has the most influence are IMHO monolithic vendor products
like Oracle, SAP, Novell. Outside of that, the best-known certifications
are Cisco (CCNE?) and MCSE, but as far as I can tell people can get
perfectly good jobs doing networking or PC configuration without
either. Then there are a bunch of Linux certifications and AFAICT that has
had no impact on the ability of competent people to get Linux jobs, since
most Linux advocates feel the same way most Perl ones do about
certification. Therefore I think the whole debate is academic.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
