"K. Zamboni" <kevinzamboni_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<ui2eqt71v6ev59_at_corp.supernews.com>...
> ORACLE INCREASES COST OF ORACLE9i DBA CERTIFICATION
> New "Instructor-Led" Training Requirement Costs at Least US$1500
I've read that reason for this is "increasing the level of quality of
our certification skill and ability benchmarks". Sounds funny to me, I
was on a lot of instructor-led trainings in Oracle, so seems to my
like level will not be as much increasing as supposed to be. :-)
I remember training about Implementing scalable databases (or
something like that), where attendees were seniors from major telekom
and bank companies who wants to learn how to manage better their TB
databases. In position of rookie in this group was one guy who has
"only" five years with Oracle. Oracle appointed guy who told us, that
he works with Oracle products for !ONE! year and his position is in
support. That guy never seen a VLDB, not mentioning to implement some.
He nicely read all papers, but that was everything we could expect
from him. All questions were answered after few weeks when this guy
got some information from more experienced colleagues.
I've also heard about another training (about some advanced techniques
in Oracle programming), where as instructor of senior developers was
used some rookie, who had no clue about even basic PL/SQL. This
training ends with big shouting and Oracle gave back all fees to
attendees.
So is great that Oracle wil increase the level of certification by
this way. I don't know why, but just know came to my mind one topic
from paper distributed in Copenhagen last week about Oracle racing
team. There was stated that one sail for boat costs about 40.000 USD.
Looks like there a great demand for new sails. :-))
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Received on Tue Jul 02 2002 - 09:02:04 CDT
