From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Aug 12 10:33:12 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CFXC3o011272 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:33:12 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7CFX8IP011257 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:33:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id E110A1DDC38; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:33:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27194-07; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:33:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 576121DDC4B; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:33:00 -0500 (EST) From: ryan_gaffuri@comcast.net To: GJohnson@GAM.COM, oracle-l Cc: "Johnson, George" Subject: Re: Oracle certification - Worth the hard work? Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:31:03 +0000 Message-Id: <081220051531.19954.42FCC0B7000A995800004DF22205886360079D9A00000E09A1020E979D@comcast.net> X-Authenticated-Sender: cnlhbl9nYWZmdXJpQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_19954_1123860663_0" X-archive-position: 23837 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: ryan_gaffuri@comcast.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: ryan_gaffuri@comcast.net X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART,MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63 --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_19954_1123860663_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit its absolutely not worth it if you have to pay for the class yourself. Oracle now requires a 1 week class. The classes now cost $3,000. If your company pays for the training then do it, if not don't. There is not alot of work to studyig for the certification. It's pretty easy. Does it help? I guess a little bit. I see some companies want it and I see that some people are impressed with it. --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_19954_1123860663_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

its absolutely not worth it if you have to pay for the class yourself. Oracle now requires a 1 week class. The classes now cost $3,000. If your company pays for the training then do it, if not don't.

There is not alot of work to studyig for the certification. It's pretty easy.

Does it help? I guess a little bit. I see some companies want it and I see that some people are impressed with it.

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