Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in news:91884734.0301021727.217124df_at_posting.google.com and I quote:

> regulations requiring the use of Oracle in government computers. To
> work on these, you must be vetted as having experience and/or
> education and/or certification. So there alone, Oracle must be held
> to a higher standard. Cynicism about _lower_ standard aside, of
> course.

What form of certification/experience? Is there a defined standard/target? I'm interested. Where I am right now I have a small chance of slightly influencing this type of stuff for the better in Australian government, so any info is most welcome.

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> Would that be a SET NOON reference? :-)
>

:D
Nope. Just what my friends call me.
Nuno is too hard to pronounce correctly, so they give up and use "noons".

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> Malpractice insurance is a very dirty word among US doctors these
> days.

That is a disadvantage of the proper recognition...

>
> Well with Boeing laying off 30000 workers in Washington State, and Mr.
> Morgan training them all, what's to think about? Lotsa cheap labor...

Hmm, was that IT workers?
I know what you mean, of course. But give it another gulf war^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfour or five years and IT will have recovered. By then there will be a few well trained people around and none coming out of the pipeline of training and a lot of the prior "colleagues" moved on.

Then it's gonna be fun to watch the "paradigm shift" yet again. Sometimes I think that what this industry needs is a purge of the layers of middle management rather than the "colleagues". After all, they are the ones that caused the situation we're in in the first place. Only then can we be reasonably safe this non-sense won't be repeated.

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> The revolution will not be streamed!
>

Right! Against the wall, you lot!!!
:D

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Nuno Souto
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