Re: Certification

[Tom Limoncelli <tal@plts.org>]

UNIX scares corporate America.  That's why it is disappearing.  They
are scared because they don't know if they are hiring someone good
or not because UNIX is too technical for them to know if they
are hiring someone good or bad.

NT scares corporate America.  However, they can hire people because
they put "MS Certified ONLY" on their "help wanted" advertisement
and, well, they rest in the security of knowing that the obvious
idiots are being filtered out.  (Even if the idiots don't get filtered
at least they can feel they did the right thing).

As a result, the corporate world is moving away from UNIX.  (there
are other reasons, but this is a biggie)

I'm not for or against certification.  I am for volunteers writing
up drafts of what they think it will look like and giving me a chance
to see if I like what they come up with.

--tal

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