Well, Linux is slowly becoming just one "chunk of the infrastructure." I.e., MQ and SQL are almost becoming "mandatory services" for IaaS, and unavoidable.
That said, I'd still argue it's LPIC-2, for now. - bjs On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Hendrik Jan Thomassen <h...@atcomputing.nl> wrote: > Matthew Rice wrote: >> >> My own personal reasons for not hating it in the objectives is that >> I've seen a few times where "management" want to get reports out of a >> DB and they turn to the techs to help them with that task. in >> particular, having Excel/*Office connecting to the DB and then trying >> to figure out some simple queries. > > This exactly illustrates my point that SQL as such has nothing to do > with Linux system administration, but is "just another application > domain". In this case: use of computers for business applications. > There are so many other uses for a computer, even with Linux :-) > > The Linux OS is the common denominator under a plethora of different > application domains: business administration, telecom, science, > numerical control, web serving, ... ... ... > I.m.h.o. the LPI certification should restrict itself to this common > denominator under all application domains. > > -- > Hendrik-Jan Thomassen <h...@atcomputing.nl> > AT Computing > Linux/UNIXperts, > opleiders & oplossers Tel +31 24 352 72 82 > Kerkenbos 1238 Tel cursussecretariaat: +31 24 352 72 72 > 6546 BE Nijmegen Fax +31 24 352 72 92 > i...@atcomputing.nl www.atcomputing.nl > > 'If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.' > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- -- Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
