Hi Barclay, I've heard very good things about LPI. One of the important parts of it I feel is that it _isn't_ vendor specific like the RHCE (as the article seems to suggest). On the other hand, for a customer using Redhat that level of specialization and vendor focus might be seen as a good thing.
There are a number of ways in which we could measure "better". Two obvious ones are financial return, and quality of instruction. The customer buying the service (of the person with the credential) who will determine which credential is the most _marketable_. Time will likley determine everything. As we well know, the best product isn't always the most popular ...at first. my $0.02 Marcel On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 16:08, Barclay Hambrook wrote: > Marcel: this relates to what we were discussing yesterday. Any comments? > > This ZDNet article about certification is written by an author who used to > recommend Red Hat's RHCE, but who now thinks that Linux Professional > Institute has a better product. "The open source movement emphasises > community participation. The concept of ownership by a single vendor goes > against the Linux grain, and several distributions vie for attention. It's > natural, then, that a vendor-independent Linux certification will appeal to > members of the open source community. A vendor-independent exam is a > natural fit." > > > ---- > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 10/15/02
