[ale] RHCE cert or Novell SUSE cert?

[Greg Freemyer]

For years, first Compaq, now HP has required its resellers to have
certified people.

They only allow their resellers to sell equipment/solutions they have
certified people to cover.

I got into Tru64 around 1994 and stuck with that cert as long as they
would let me.  I think it is the end of the year (2007) that they are
expiring all the Tru64 certs, so I have to move on.

FYI: I think they allow Windows certs, but those never even cross my
mind for personal achievement.

FYI2: For those interested HP has for years claimed that the salaries
for people with one of their certs are the best around.  I'm not a
typical employee, so I'm not good reference case on that.

Greg

On 7/31/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> If your end game is "certification" then I'd definitely recommend a
> Linux one over an HP-UX one.   HP-UX is my favorite UNIX variant but
> I've been gainfully employed for years as a UNIX admin without needing
> "certification".  Linux on the other hand I believe in the long run will
> require "certification" just because many shops are moving the MS-Admins
> into doing Linux and certification is something most MS-Admins have so
> they'll likely think it necessary to get it for Linux.
>
> That is to say I don't think "certification" actually offers you more
> than "experience" but that I believe you'll need it in the future just
> to keep your resume in the running for a job against all the other
> "certified" folks.   (In fact I've met tons of "certified" folks who
> IMHO should only have been "certified" as morons.)
>
> One nice thing about HP-UX over other UNIX variants is it uses LVM
> natively so has that in common with Linux.  (Though they do try to push
> you to use Veritas Volume Manager these days - I worked in a large
> network gear maker's shop and they had dozens of HP-UX systems quite
> happily running LVM.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
> Freemyer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:40 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] RHCE cert or Novell SUSE cert?
>
> On 7/31/07, David Tomaschik <ozone at webgroup.org> wrote:
> > Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I have a client that may pay my "tuition" to get a current Linux
> Admin cert.
> > >
> > > Likely I would want to do this in the next few months, so maybe by
> the
> > > end of Oct.
> > >
> > > Is training for either of these routinely in Atlanta?
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> >
> > Have you looked at LPI?
> >
>
> My client is willing to pay due to some HP requirements.  I don't
> think HP is accepting the LPI as a stepping stone to their bigger
> certs.
>
> Currently I have 4 Tru64 certs of various flavors that HP is going to
> expire, so I need to replace them with one of RH/SUSE/HPUX/openVMS.
> I'm obviously learning towards RH or SUSE.
>
> I also have a RHCE 3.0, but I routinely use SUSE, so it is a toss up
> which one to get.
>
> FYI: Someone else said RH is more common and I agree, but my biggest
> client is Ford and they use SUSE in their datacenter I believe.  (The
> project I support is still Win2003, but someday I hope to get them to
> transition it.  There is really no reason not to.  We use a J2EE
> stack.)
>
> Greg
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Greg Freemyer
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