At the probability of being shadowed by the on-going LPIC-3 debate I
would like to chime in with a resounding 'YES!!!!!' at the suggestion of
a LPI-LAMP certification. There may be some overlap with the Zend and
MySQL certs, but LPI is in the perfect position to provide an
entry-level, comprehensive 'glue' cert. to tie everything together on
the development side.
To re-state my position on LPIC-3, I think it's a waste of time and
resources that could better be spent shoring up levels 1 and 2, and then
investigating further skill validation tests such as an LPI-LAMP exam.
I believe the potential demand and audience is significantly greater for
a LAMP cert than an administration level 3, which, IMHO, is nothing more
than a trophy. If you can pass level 2 and you still don't have a job,
your problem is probably more of a personality disorder than a skill
deficit.
I would also like to suggest that we rename the LPIC-3 exam as, 'The
Bryan J. Smith memorial' -- because I think his head is about to explode.
-Evan
Fernando Lozano wrote:
Hi there,
Moving on to ideas for the future, before adding anything to the wiki
I'd like to hear some opinions and understand better how LPI feels
about developer certifications. Because my main work is as a developer
and I have a strong interest on this, and I perceive a growing demand
for those.
A LPI certification track could cover everything from LAMP and
traditional GNU development to databases and web services (like JavaEE
and Mono). It could become very fragmented per development language /
platform, but I also see many common tasks like packaging (building
packages) and source code control. I guess embedded Linux would be
more about development than networking and system administration.
My main concern is, what do you think about competition and
duplication with other certifications already availabe, like Zend for
PHP, MySQL, JBoss and Sun Java?
I also heard there were some tentative partnership between LPI and
Zend for the PHP certification, but that didn't worked out as expected.
[]s, Fernando Lozano
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