From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 12 8:24:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from thneed.ubergeeks.com (thneed.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5D315016 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by thneed.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13231; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:23:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thneed.ubergeeks.com: adrian owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:23:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Lanny Baron Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification...again In-Reply-To: <199907120742.DAA87738@freedom.cybertouch.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Lanny Baron wrote: > Hello Fellow FreeBSD'ers, > I would just like to say that it irks me to death that I must spend > $16,500.00 (canadian) to take a 23 week long immersion course to > be "prepared" for MCSE, Oracle and A+ certification. Although the > school (private) I am going to will touch on solaris for a whole week, > many people I have talked to on IRC tell me I am wasting my time. > > However I am not. Here, in Toronto at least. Many companies > looking to hire people want to see 1) a university degree or 2) a ton > of experience they can call and get references on the applicants. 3) > Certification from recognized systems (for a lack of a better term). Well, you might check out the USENIX certification debate. I'm of two minds on the whole issue, but I'm sure that any certification that they settle upon would apply pretty well to FreeBSD. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message