[Scottish] RHCE

[Andrew Calverley]

In the enterprises I have worked in, LPI has never been asked for. RHCE has
been the only Linux OS cert which I have seen on a Job Spec sheet.


On 14 December 2010 12:47, Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretecsystems.com> wrote:

> Exactly. In our world the LPI makes sense, but sometimes the commercial
> world wants the brand. Is do LPI for staff and a couple of RHCE for the
> sales and marketing reasons.
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Andrew Back" <andy at smokebelch.org>
> Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 11:58
> Subject: [Scottish] RHCE
> To: "ScotLUG" <scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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>  On (16:28 12/12/10), Julian Gibson wrote:
> > All
> >
> > I'm thinking of doing the RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) exam as part
> > of a process to get a job where I spend less of my time using MS and
> > more on what I've been using at home for over 10 years.
> > Anyone got any hints, tips, war stories, gotchas, whatever from having
> > done this or considered and rejected the idea that they'd be willing to
> > share?
>
> I realise that this is not what you asked, however... I decided to do an
> LPI
> cert rather than RH or Novell, for the simple reason that it didn't seem to
> make sense as an open source advocate to go and do a vendor certification.
> Most, if not all vendors can't help but try and lock you in, and I wasn't
> interested in learning about a particular vendor's Linux "value add"
> proposition and the associated proprietary bits. I mean I'm sure they teach
> you a bunch of transferable skills, but why bother if there is a largely
> distro agnostic alternative? (that may be much cheaper too)
>
> That said I appreciate that we do live in a world where $SHINY wins-out and
> marketing hyperbole counts for something, sadly. So, it may be that you'd
> get more mileage out of a vendor cert. It'll almost certainly make dealings
> with the mind brokers less painful, as they're programmed to respond to
> brands and product names and prefer not to concern themselves with
> precisely
> what is is that their stock in trade actually does.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
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