Jenny I assume you are talking about Juniper. I really don't know anything about their cert. The company I know pretty well. I would not want to be looking for a job in this market place with only Juniper experience. Juniper will not go away for sure, but they will be at the tail end of the recovery at best.
>From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: How do I approach the company about my CCIE [7:40261] >Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 19:15:12 -0400 > >"A CCIE is still the highest networking cert and the only one that is not a > >paper cert. " > >I'll save nrf the trouble of saying this. >Highest networking cert? Arguable. Depends how you define "highest". But >it's certainly not a totally unreasonable claim. Only one that is not a >paper cert? Hardly. Try doing a little more research. >However, if you substitute "Cisco" for "networking" in your original >sentence, it looks far more accurate. > >Cisco is not the only player, or even the only significant player, in the >networking game. > >JMcL > > >----- Forwarded by Jenny Mcleod/NSO/CSDA on 28/05/2002 08:39 am ----- > > >"Wes Stevens" >Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >27/05/2002 11:40 pm >Please respond to "Wes Stevens" > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: Re: How do I approach the company about my CCIE >[7:40261] >Is this part of a business decision process?: > > >If you look at Cisco over the last 18 months compared to it's competitors >it >has done well. It's sales have dropped much less then most other >networking >companies and they have actually gained market share in all major areas. >The >major telco's built out way too fast and the growth did not come like they > >expected. But on the enterprise side companies took it a lot slower. This >economy is starting a slow recovery. Next year things will pick up. It >will >never be like 1999 as you say, but we will get back to the point where >there >will be plenty of jobs. > >A CCIE is still the highest networking cert and the only one that is not a > >paper cert. We have seen a lot more numbers comming out these days, but >Cisco doubled the number of lab seats in San Jose and RTP back in March. >Add >to that the one day lab and Sat and Sun testing and there are a lot more >people taking the test. Cisco keeps track of the passing percent and will >adjust the challenge of the lab if necessary. The other thing is we >probably >will see major changes in the lab before the end of the year. When they >get >rid of token ring who knows what goodies they will replace it with. It >will >take a while for the boot camps to adjust their programs to the new topics > >and the candidates that take the self study route will be searching for >ways >to cover the new material. There will be a big slow down for a while at >that >point. > > >I guess my point is I do not see the value of the CCIE going the way of >the >microsoft certs. Thing will get better next year and the demand for CCIE's > >will raise. > >[snipped] > > > > >Important: This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee and may >contain information that is confidential, commercially valuable or subject >to legal or parliamentary privilege. If you are not the intended recipient >you are notified that any review, re-transmission, disclosure, use or >dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited by several >Commonwealth Acts of Parliament. If you have received this communication >in >error please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this >transmission together with any attachments. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=45172&t=40261 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
