On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:41:03PM -0500, Theo Schlossnagle wrote: > On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:33 PM, David Fetter wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:52:08AM -0200, Iannsp wrote: > >>Hello, > >>I did like to know what you think about the postgresql > >>certifications provided for > >> > >>PostgreSQL CE http://www.sraoss.co.jp/postgresql-ce/news_en.html > >> > >>CertFirst http://www.certfirst.com/postgreSql.htm > >> > >>My question is about the validate of this certification for the > >>clients. Make difference to be certified? > > > >Clueful clients will look unfavorably on any "PostgreSQL > >certification" you have. They will instead insist on experience > >and references, as clueful clients do. :) > > I don't believe that's true. Oracle certification means quite a > bit. Cisco certification is excellent. Sun certification is > decent. If the PostgreSQL certifications don't mean much it is a > problem with the particular vendor of the certificate and you (as a > PostgreSQL entity) should contest their right to use PostgreSQL name > in their advertising or marketing.
Sadly, at least in the U.S., PostgreSQL is unlikely to be a defensible trademark. I am not an intellectual property attorney, and if I were one, my opinion would not be as weighty as a court case. > Certification programs can and should mean something. I'd love to see a good one for PostgreSQL. What I've seen so far has been somewhere between dismal and rotten. > We offer training programs here and have considered offering OmniTI > certifications in the future. I wouldn't offer then unless I > thought it meant something that companies "out there" could rely > on. Great :) > Many other certifying entities have the same approach. 99% of them give the rest a bad name ;) Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
