[ale] RHCE cert or Novell SUSE cert?

[Jeff Lightner]

If your end game is "certification" then I'd definitely recommend a
Linux one over an HP-UX one.   HP-UX is my favorite UNIX variant but
I've been gainfully employed for years as a UNIX admin without needing
"certification".  Linux on the other hand I believe in the long run will
require "certification" just because many shops are moving the MS-Admins
into doing Linux and certification is something most MS-Admins have so
they'll likely think it necessary to get it for Linux.  

That is to say I don't think "certification" actually offers you more
than "experience" but that I believe you'll need it in the future just
to keep your resume in the running for a job against all the other
"certified" folks.   (In fact I've met tons of "certified" folks who
IMHO should only have been "certified" as morons.)

One nice thing about HP-UX over other UNIX variants is it uses LVM
natively so has that in common with Linux.  (Though they do try to push
you to use Veritas Volume Manager these days - I worked in a large
network gear maker's shop and they had dozens of HP-UX systems quite
happily running LVM.)

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
To: ale at ale.org
Freemyer
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:40 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] RHCE cert or Novell SUSE cert?

On 7/31/07, David Tomaschik <ozone at webgroup.org> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a client that may pay my "tuition" to get a current Linux
Admin cert.
> >
> > Likely I would want to do this in the next few months, so maybe by
the
> > end of Oct.
> >
> > Is training for either of these routinely in Atlanta?
> >
> > Greg
> >
>
> Have you looked at LPI?
>

My client is willing to pay due to some HP requirements.  I don't
think HP is accepting the LPI as a stepping stone to their bigger
certs.

Currently I have 4 Tru64 certs of various flavors that HP is going to
expire, so I need to replace them with one of RH/SUSE/HPUX/openVMS.
I'm obviously learning towards RH or SUSE.

I also have a RHCE 3.0, but I routinely use SUSE, so it is a toss up
which one to get.

FYI: Someone else said RH is more common and I agree, but my biggest
client is Ford and they use SUSE in their datacenter I believe.  (The
project I support is still Win2003, but someday I hope to get them to
transition it.  There is really no reason not to.  We use a J2EE
stack.)

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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