From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 04:36:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2BA16A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:36:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99C943D2D for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from www.smsdesign.org (ool-4353d5dd.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.213.221]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I31008I4E50HW@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:36:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:36:36 -0400 From: Tim Kellers In-reply-to: <412D5DC1.9020106@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200408260036.36660.kellers@njit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040824202731.BA4D043D5C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20040825003235.374c226d@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <412D5DC1.9020106@earthlink.net> cc: Barbish3@adelphia.net cc: Ara@Avvali.COM cc: Vulpes Velox Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certifications? Does it exist? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 04:36:38 -0000 I'm the instructor (and the author of) the NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) "Open source unix classes." The NJIT curriculum, while non-credit and classified as "Professional Development' is the Only University level course in the world that is both sanctioned as a bona fide certificate program (certificate endorsed by NJIT) AND endorsed by the FreeBSD foundation. (If you don't believe me, e-mail Robert Watson of the core FreeBSD team.) NJIT offers 3 courses in the BSD unix certification program: Intro to Unix, Unix Admin I and Unix Admin II in the certification track. Until a year ago, we also offered Solaris certification training: preparation for the Sun Solaris exam --which in the past 2 weeks has been announced as yet another open-source track. SUN plans, apparently, on basing its business plan on earning a profit from it's proprietary java implementations and it's hardware development. Unlike Sun, NJIT has placed 100 percent of it's successful certificate candidates in IT jobs, and all on a track to system administrator positions. The NJIT open source unix prgram remains a demanding and difficult program --not unlike commercial system administrator positions. While our selection process is both stringent and competitive, we welcome potential candidates to apply. Our next in-class instruction begins in early October; out next eLearning instruction begins September 1, 2004. http://cpe.njit.edu/noncredit/#opensourceunix Follow the links, and find out about our program: or. alternately, write kellers@njit.edu (me) for further details. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:49 pm, Bob Perry wrote: > Vulpes Velox wrote: > >On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:33:36 -0400 > > > >Bob Perry wrote: > >>>They offer training and classes that come with a cert afterwards, > >>> > >>> > >>>from what I can tell. Would be nice just to see a place that offers > >>> > >>> > >>>just a cert and no classes. > >> > >>If I read the site correctly, they offer both classroom and, what > >>they call, eLearning for their Distance Learning students. > > > >Unless they are offering a major difference in price, it still looks > >like way to much for just a cert and still a class. > > Certainly can't argue with you regarding their price. > It's a lot more than I can afford. > > FreeBSD can be a handful at times. I certainly would like > to understand and appreciate it more than I do. The cert > would be secondary. > > Bob