Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!rockie.attcanada.net!newsfeed.attcanada.net!204.127.161.4!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D28BCDA.A1E3746B@ureach.com> From: Karen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: The point of Oracle certification References: <3d2828e8$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.110.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1026080016 12.234.110.174 (Sun, 07 Jul 2002 22:13:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 22:13:36 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 22:13:36 GMT Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:153327 X-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 15:10:56 MST (news.easynews.com) They could be useful if they were real exams. The way they are now, they bring confusion to the market as there can be 9i-certified folks with several months of experience competing with folks with 10 years of experience and no certification. I do not think the hiring managers can always tell the difference. Sted Alana wrote: > To All > > What is the point of Oracle certifications? lets face it, they are expensive > and will become redundant in years. For example, a person who is Oracle 8i > certified is now out of date because of the release of Oracle 9i. Why would > someone pay to get re-certified to keep in tune with Oracle technology? My > reasoning is that people get certified and recertified because their company > pays them to get certified (i.e. they already have a job). > > Comments welcomed, by all means. > > Regards > Sted > > -- > N e w s N e t C u s t o m e r > E - m a i l : sted.alana@hotmail.com