Maybe someone @ RedHat will listen if I post here... There was no response from any of the other addresses.
...Skeeve -----Original Message----- From: Skeeve Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Natalie Cramp'; 'Dean Samuels'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Disappointed - Lack of support for RHCE's in Australia To Whom can make a difference, Since becoming a RHCE over a year ago, I have been quite disappointed with the lack of support for RHCE. There has been VERY little press/marketing in Australia to promote the Certification in the I.T media or to create awareness among the I.T recruitment field. Products like the Enterprise servers are fantastic, but unlike other OS companies like Microsoft, Novell and others, we cant get free copies of the Advanced Server/Enterprise families to be able to learn them... I am an RHCE who has never even seen a AS server, much less know about administrating and rolling them out. About all I received ever from RedHat Asia Pacific was my couple of shirts, a cap and my certificate, and monthly emails telling me I should do more expensive training. I love RedHat, but find it a constant battle to represent it in my workplace and industry against stalwarts who are Debian or BSD fanatics... I say "But RedHat is a REAL company, with certification, consultants, box sets, and so on"... but it means little when RedHat itself does almost NOTHING for you. I would like to see a Register on the RedHat Asia Pacific website, with all listed RHCE's and their physical locations and specialties... so when people need work done, they can go look for the right person. I am also disappointed that I have to compete DIRECTLY with RedHat AsiaPac for consulting work... how can I possibly? I have had 5 occasions so far when someone has said to me, "why would they talk to anyone else but RedHat themselves - they charge reasonably". This is very hard to compete against. I want to see: - Mailing list in APAC region and world for RHCE's so we can discuss and help each other out... the other OS's have this, why don't we? - Access to Software from RedHat - Enterprise Suite, RH Database, etc etc like Microsoft MSDN and so on, where their Certified people have access to ALL the latest software and Betas as soon as they are available. - Access to Enterprise Network for above - Access to lead generation from RedHat APAC... - The RH APAC website updated... the last news on there is from 27 August... some 7 months ago... get serious. - Some sort of involvement from RH APAC to kick off some sort of 'Community' for RedHat Certified people in Australia - Emails answered... over 1-2 weeks ago I emailed RedHat APAC about becoming a Reseller... and got no response. - The RedHat Certified Service Provider Programme... $25,000 US$ ? That is out of this world.... Or I may have to start looking at certification in other areas and leaving RedHat behind, which is where I feel it is presently leaving people like me.... I personally know 5 RHCE's, and they feel the same. _______________________________________________________ Skeeve Stevens, RHCE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.skeeve.org - Telephone: (0414) 753 383 Address: P.O Box 1035, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia eIntellego - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.eintellego.net _______________________________________________________ Si vis pacem, para bellum -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
