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Which Linux Certification to take?
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| tonik619 2003-05-31, 2:54 am |
| I have been working with Linux (Red Hat) at home for about 6 months, and I want to start studying for a linux certification track. There are 2 of them that I'm looking at- 1) Sair Linux and GNU (LCP and/or LCA) and 2) Linux Professional Institute (LPIC Level I). Which certification track is better or more well recognized in the IT industry? I am undecided about which one to pursue. Any suggestions? | |
| Boulware5 2003-05-31, 2:30 pm |
| I would say LPI. | |
| tadams119 2003-06-01, 1:21 pm |
| AFAIk Sair is dead. The last press release on their website (www.linuxcertification.com) is from September of '01.
Sair was bought by a company I used to work for called Wave Technologies - www.wavetech.com Sair was a little staff based in Oxford Mississippi. Sometime after Wave was bought out by Thomson Learning in 2000 they closed the offices at Sair. I guess all they wanted was the name and the intellectual property. Wave was shut down last year and the name and IP for Wave was transferred to Netg in Chicago.
I have absolutely no inside information about the Sair situation. But from what I know about Netg and Thomson, it's a pretty safe bet that they will not put a pennys worth of further developement into it. And the only reason they haven't taken the whole thing down is that some residual money from book sales and a few exams being taken here and there is still coming in. So you might want to avoid the Sair cert because I don't believe the owners of it intend to do anything with it other than collect what little cash they can still get out of it. Maybe someone from Netg or Thomson would like to respond to this and clarify.
I'm not bitter (well, not much) about Thompson/Netg shutting down Wave and Sair. The fools (Thompson) bought Wave for top dollar in the spring of 2000 just as the Internet bubble was bursting. To say that they lost their shirts is an understatement.
I'm doing the Linux+ cert frankly because it's easy and I'm a rank beginner with Linux. So entry level is appropriate for me. The cert is not the end goal. It's just a little goal to get me going down the path with Linux. Kind of like setting a goal of running a 10K in two months when your larger goal is general fitness. Certs help me get excited about a topic and motivate me to turn the TV off and study instead. But I strongly agree with some of the comments I've seen on this board that real-world skills and knowledge is what's important, not the little credential.
Wave Technologies did MCSE bootcamps and they turned out their share of MCSEs, especially back in the NT4 days when the tests were easier, who couldn't trouble shoot a server if their life depended on it. Example: NT4 Server box sitting there running. Instructor asks "Why can't this server communicate with the network?" Student scratches his head and looks puzzled without a clue where to begin. The cat5 wasn't plugged into the NIC card - lol. That's what happens when you just read a book once through and memorize some braindumps and pass an exam without ever having any hands-on experience. | |
| neuralfx 2003-06-01, 5:32 pm |
| Ya, I called "Sair" a couple months back to see if I should still pursue it .. The guy on the phone made it sound as if it were alive and kickin' .. and something about it being taken over by Linux standards board or something, I forget the name .. but now looking at it and nothing has happened .. I would say it is pretty much dead in the water .. and Tadams said is pretty much right .. ::sigh:: it was a good program though .. more solid than LPI ..
-neural |
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