RHCE certification

[Ryan Golhar]

Most people rave about Oracle on Solaris.  I just readily assumed 
someone using Oracle would know how to get around in a shell.


hike wrote:
> Oracle is an application while RHEL is an operating system.
> 
> Certification in Oracle is an application certification.
> Certification in RHEL is an OS certification.
> 
> See the difference?
> 
> SQL* is NOT the CLI!
> 
> Oracle trains people how to use the database.
> Why do you think that they are trained in a shell or the CLI?
> 
> Bizarre....
> 
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Ryan Golhar <golharam at umdnj.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Its funny.  I know someone who is Oracle certified, yet she doesn't know
>> the first thing about getting around in a shell.  Always made me think what
>> these certifications really mean.
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephen Carville wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday 22 August 2008 5:48 am, Johan Booysen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yep they will be paying.  I see what you mean and of course it's true in
>>>> terms of having a piece of paper as opposed to actually being able to do
>>>> this or that.
>>>>
>>>> Having said that, people over here also like the idea of things being
>>>> quantifiable, including certifications and suchlike.  So they're
>>>> investing in staff training, which I think is great.
>>>>
>>> Something that often gets overlooked in these discussions is that certain
>>> contractors insist on certain certifications.  This is especially true of
>>> the US government.   Several years ago I was competing with at least two
>>> Solaris admins I knew were better qualified than me at that time.  Despite
>>> that, I was chosen because I have a BS degree in Telecommunications and the
>>> other two guys didn't have any degrees.  The contract required so many
>>> Bachelor degrees so many Masters degrees and a couple three Phd's had to be
>>> on the project.
>>>
>>> Go figger...
>>>
>>> It's not just for governments either.  Several times in my career I've had
>>> to sign a release so my employer could attach evidence of my
>>> "qualifications" to a bid.  It may sound silly -- it does to me -- but that
>>> RHCE may someday make the difference between your employer getting a
>>> contract or not.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stephen
>>>
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