| Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid | |
 |
 | |||
| Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid | |
|
| |||
Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: the ora certified masters cert - finally bloody sick
Don,
... please.... I am not the yard stick you go by ;-)
Oracle8 OCP upgrade was most surprising test I ever took in my whole life. I
score 100%. I like it when that happens! But I felt cheated... and then I
stopped taking those OCPs. But now I am looking at this from the economical
point of view. Take two upgrade exams (8i, 9i NF) or spend my own $$$ on
more. It is clear that my boss won't pay for them as he did a few years
ago. He is a smart Damager!! ;) He may not be very technical, Oracle wise,
but knows what he needs to know !!
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:08 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
If I've offended anyone, they have my most sincere appology. However, I think you have interpreted this wrong. I have never said or implied, nor do I remember seeing anyone else say, that anyone with an OCP is trying to cover up for some deficiency. In the post that you replied to, I said "a few... that waved their OCP around like it was a Nobel prize". These (two) people were - quite obviously. The vast majority of OCPs I've known, including many on this list, are not like that at all. Many got it because it is now a market necessity. Some got it to get an entry-level DBA position. A few that I know got it just to see if they could pass all the exams without any preparation.
My problem is not with people who have it, it is with the marketing and hype that has made it mandatory - regardless of level of exerience or anything else. And also with Oracle's most recent greedy exploitation of the situation they created.
Will I get it? Probably. (I don't want to be the only one left without it and it looks like Kirti's gonna go for it now. ;-)
<snip>
--
Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
--
Author: Deshpande, Kirti
INET: kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.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_at_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 also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 09:53:21 CDT
 |
 |