Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

Seems nobody's left quiet. :)
Personally, I don't want to be obstinate. I wouldn't avoid certification only because I think (and yes, I do) it's all about the Oracle's revenue and nothing about professional knowledge. Works for Oracle - fine, glad for them. As "side effect" I can have increase in personal revenue and that's what I care about. That's what I count on. Well, that's my point here.

Alexandre

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> Well that explains a lot. In a separate post Rachel also said Oracle
> denigrated the prior Chauncey/IOUG tests so it's obvious that Oracle is
just
> using testing and certification as another source of revenue. Professional
> Development of the DBA community is just marketing hype. All the more
reason
> to avoid the 9i tests.
>
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> The original certification program was developed by IOUG when Mike Corey
was
> president of the group. I cannot remember if the program ever certified
> anyone other than those who built it. Once Oracle had its own
> certification program the IOUG one withered.
>
> The relationship between ORACLE and its user groups have not always been
> friendly. The OAUG's complaints have made the national press. If my
memory
> serves, and its already been shown to be faulty, the first OOW-Americas
was
> scheduled to be at the same time as the IOUG-A. Corey indicated he was
> going to see Ellison and explain to him that he couldn't do such a thing,
> that OOW-Americas would have to be rescheduled. Ellison was not moved,
> neither was the OOW-Americas conference; the IOUG-A get together was :)
>
> To its credit IOUG-A live is seen as a more credible than the marketing
show
> known as OOW. However I doubt the conference would maintain its value if
> Oracle sent no one. If the IOUG had a competing certification program,
> Oracle would do its best to snuff it out.
>
> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu
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