Simone C. wrote: > Would be great if LPI certified people could get Comptia certification > too... isn't it?
In the Linux world, who cares about CompTIA when you can have LPI? The reason behind this move is obviously not that people are queueing up by the thousands in order to take CompTIA Linux+ exams. I don't know about the situation elsewhere, but here in Germany, for example, CompTIA Linux+ might as well not exist at all as far as we -- the leading provider of Linux training resources in the country -- are concerned. I've been teaching LPIC prep for nearly 10 years now and I would be hard put to remember more than a small handful of enquiries about Linux+ during all that time. From the press release, it isn't clear to me exactly what is going to happen but it appears that if you pass the CompTIA-branded version of the LPI 101 and 102 exams you will get an LPIC-1 certificate for free (in addition to your CompTIA Linux+ »powered by LPI« certificate). As far as I can tell, nobody so far has said specifically that the converse is also true, i.e., that you will get a free CompTIA Linux+ certificate if you pass the original LPI-101/102 exams. If that isn't the case we can expect the number of non-CompTIA branded LPI-101/102 exams delivered to take a nose dive since -- HR managers being what they are -- it would be silly for candidates to refuse a free addition to their vanity wall courtesy of CompTIA, as HR people who haven't yet heard of LPI are likely to have heard of CompTIA and vice-versa. Also nobody has said whether successful CompTIA Linux+ »powered by LPI« candidates will qualify for the sheaf of free certificates from Novell that they throw after genuine LPIC-1 alumni these days. With Novell apparently about to be sold for scrap it remains to be seen whether these will have a long-term value that exceeds that of the paper one prints them on (at one's own expense) -- if they ever did to begin with --, but there we are. Anselm (speaking strictly for himself, as always) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
