Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "basrad@oraspec.ind" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: The point of Oracle certification Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:14:36 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <3d2828e8$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1026083042 02 15757 -33Hb12bTQARPX 020707 23:04:02 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520003694498-0001@t-dialin.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:153329 X-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 16:04:24 MST (news.easynews.com) the point is : - certification means nothing - but expirience means nothing too how many "experienced" dba are out there which do their standard stuff for ten years, learn no new stuff and sit like chicken on their database "protecting" it, but are not compentent in the things we need today like supporting development, teamworking, and really service oriented so the best thing is to have somebody who is service orientied, has huge developement expierence and understand the concepts and is eager to learn the new stuff, and in 2 years he is ten times better then most dba with 10 years expierence "Sted Alana" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3d2828e8$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au... > 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 certified is now out of date because of the release of Oracle 9i.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 > > > > > >