Re: Are IT certifications important?

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From: Matthew Kruk
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:43

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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".

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