Re: RHCE certification

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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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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