IT job strategies: Vendor vs. generic certifications
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| IT pros are divided on the value of brand-name certifications. On the one
| hand, vendor-neutral certifications seem a better fit today’s world of
| commoditized products. Then again, a Red Hat certification certainly appeals
| to majority of Linux-friendly employers.
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| Most Microsoft pros are not good generalists, and most Linux pros are, says
| Ed Kohlwey, technology director of The ASCII Group of Bethesda, Maryland.
| Largely, Linux pros have had to be able to work in heterogeneous data
| centers. Microsoft pros have not, but that’s changing.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/25/linux-pros-prefer-it-generalists-to-vendor-specific-certs/
Related:
Staffing for Linux, not distribution X
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| What doesn’t change is that you hired them to do what they’re doing: run
| Linux - and the next step in generality is to first recognise that Linux, the
| BSDs, and Solaris are all variations on a theme and then to conclude that
| people who are good with one of these are likely to be equally effective with
| the other two.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=912
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