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Article #18Re: Are IT certifications important?
From: Brian Inglis
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:40
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:40
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On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:43:41 -0800, Matthew Kruk
<mkruk@attcanada.ca> wrote:
>Elat Lerner wrote:
>>
>> Smackey Two-Tongues (Smackey Two-Tongues) writes:
>> > http://www.certcities.com/
>>
>> Cool, I had no idea there were web sites dedicated to the topic
>> of IT certifications. Who finances a site like that? They
>> don't seem to have a lot of advertising.
>>
>> And on another note, I have always wondered what percentage
>> of the revenues of companies such as Microsoft is derived
>> from the certification programs. Whoever started this
>> certification business was a genious...
>
>I had heard that it was Novell. The certification was originally for their
>salepeople so that they knew their "stuff".
That jives with what people who were paid to get them told me --
that Novell and MS certs are basically about what N/MS products
should the customer buy to do a job -- sales and buzzword
training.
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Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Brian.Inglis@CSi.com (Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca)
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