In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) wrote:
> At 11:51 AM 8/17/01 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
> >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.
Well, when certain factions are actually talking about the Perl
community endorsing certain certifications, I get a bit tense about it.
Maybe it is unlikely. But if I don't speak up and it happens, well,
I'll rightfully feel like a jackass. :)
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