Etienne Goyer wrote: > At the very least, LPIC-3 will provide very good positioning and credibility > for LPI (if done well). > Absolutely. The higher level exams are the most difficult to create (because the pool of people with experience at that level is of course smaller). That, combined with the knowledge that the market for higher-level exams is smaller, indicates that LPIC-3 is being primarily done for the benefit of having a complete and high-quality program. If it drives more people to get their Level 2, so much the better.
(It's my big problem with CompTIA's approach to certification. All they care about is entry-level, the one that's easiest to make and has the most potential candidates. Their intent is to pick off the "low hanging fruit" and leave it to others to do the more-expensive-to-make, lower-revenue-potential higher levels. While I have respect for Novell's and Red Hat's cert programs, I have none for Linux+ and wish it would go away.) The release of LPIC-3 is the ultimate realization of the plan that Dan York and I first sketched out, in Orem Utah's La Quinta Hotel, in late 1998. We'd snuck into the hotel's only conference room and spent the day brainstorming in front of a whiteboard, the day before we were scheduled to meet senior management at Caldera's head office (Dan and I had met in person for the first time just two days earlier). Our goal at that time was to convince Caldera to be part of a community vendor-neutral certification program, instead of doing its own as was being planned. Dan and I took previous email discussions, refined them into a three-level program, and made the pitch to Caldera based on that plan. Obviously we succeeded -- within a few weeks they'd killed their internal certification initiative and given us our first sponsorship cheque, soon to be followed by Linuxcare and SuSE (and later others). Caldera, Linuxcare and SuSE are now all swallowed into other organizations; LPI continues to thrive as an independent non-profit with both grassroots and corporate support, into which many very skilled and passionate people have contributed their talent. Still, in looking at the proposed LPIC-3 structure, it seems that the LPIC program has evolved into a form that's still extremely close to what Dan and I had envisioned seven years ago. ** Congratulations to Matt and everyone who's worked to get LPIC-3 out. You've made a lot of LPI old-timers proud. - Evan ** -- The only major difference was that originally exam 102 was envisioned as a number of distribution-specific options. That later was pruned down to a binary RPM/DPKG choice, and eventually they merged too. There are some minor differences on LPIC-3 but it's still pretty close. _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
