[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Admin Certifications LPI or Linux+

[Cameron, Thomas]

> * Cameron, Thomas <Thomas.Cameron at bankofamerica.com> [040430 16:29]:
> > 
> > If your assertion is that I was trying to blow my own horn, 
> I was not.
> 
> Of course you weren't.  The juxtaposition of the RHCE after your name
> and your comments on the RHCE struck me as funny (ha ha, not strange).
> 
> It's human nature:  we all think the ordeals we have endured mark true
> excellence.  Very often they do just that, as in the case of my
> comprehensive exams and, as you say, the RHCE.  But we would believe
> they were signs of excellence even if they weren't, so long as we had
> suffered enough undergoing them ourselves.  So far as I can 
> tell that's
> the main reason medical doctors still put their apprentices through
> ludicrously counter-productive weeks and months of sleep deprivation:
> because *they* all went through the same ordeal themselves.
> 
> I wasn't trying to single you out: that's why I mentioned my 
> own exams.
> I'm sorry I didn't write in a less ambiguous way...  I guess I should
> have added more than a simple ':)'.

OK, I understand.  Thanks for the clarification.

Back to the topic, though...  I will say that I've been through a *bunch* of certification processes, some more successfully than others.  You will *never* hear me say "I really respect *anyone* who has an MCSE."  My point was that I know a lot of paper tiger MCSEs.  I don't know anyone with an RHCE who doesn't really know their stuff.  Out of all the cert exams I've taken, Red Hat's is the one I respect the most.

--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
(972) 997-9641

The opinions expressed in this message are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer, Bank of America.