Message-Id: <10481.104445@fatcity.com> From: Kevin Martin Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:48:17 -0500 Subject: RE: Here we go again...OCP Truer words were never spoken. -km -----Original Message----- From: guy ruth hammond [mailto:grh@agency.com] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Here we go again...OCP Lisa_Koivu@gelco.com wrote: > I am wondering now about what OCP is really good for then. I do not have a > bachelor's degree so I want to complete OCP anyway. It will make job hunting in > Florida with less than one year experience as a DBA a bit easier. Does anyone > else feel that this certification is worthless? Well, let me tell you a story. Way, way back when, there was a file/print server called NetWarez. (Names changes to protect the innocent). Now, NetWarez wasn't terribly difficult to use, and it did only two things (filin' and printin') but it did them rather well. One day, Corporate America (tm) woke up and said to itself, "hmm, gotta get me some of that". So, pretty soon, NetWarez is installed everywhere, and everyone's relying on it. Lots of people suddenly decide they want to be NetWarez administrators, because these are relied on and well rewarded within the corporate environment. Soon, the situation gets out of hand: people who've barely any experience are passing themselves off as NetWarez gurus, and the only time their employers find out is when Something Goes Wrong. So the Navel Corporation, vendors of NetWarez, create a certification programme, to ensure that NetWarez admins have a certain baseline of skill. This programme was aggressively marketed, and within not very much time at all, no-one will hire anyone who doesn't have the certificate - in fact, they won't even bother to interview them. It is practically impossible to get a NetWarez job today without a CNE. Roll forward a few years, and Navel's arch-rival M1 | "Wade in with our workboots, Technology / Synergy / Consulting | try to finish the job." 07879607148 http://www.agency.com | -- Dar Williams -- Author: guy ruth hammond INET: grh@agency.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may