[WBEL-users] Fw: New Red Hat Certified Architect certification and Enterprise Architect curriculum

[James Knowles]

>Is this just RH looking to make more money ? 
>

It seems to be in response to the "corporate comfort zone" that has 
systemically existed in most large corportations, the kind that will 
take the person with a degree (and little experience) over the highly 
skilled person without the degree. These certification programs attempt 
to fill that gap in the bureaucratic mind. Unfortunately it's also 
systemic in the government and schooling heirarchies, which creates an 
implied "need" in the populace at large.

Will RH profit? Only in the same way that Microsoft profits from 
MSCE-style programs. I personally don't point my finger at RH for these 
programs; they're only responding to a demand for paper in the minds of 
many.

Whether the paper is worth anything in "real life" is orthogonal to the 
desire for the paper existing. :-D



-- 
If you are easily frightened you should not learn to fence, for a despondent heart will always be defeated, regardless of all skill.
- Sigmund Ringeck, "The Knighly Art of the Longsword," c. 1440

Aber erschreckstu gern so saltu die kunst des fechtens nitt lernen Wann ain blöds verzags hertz das tut kain gut wann es wirt by aller kunst geschlagen.
- Sigmund Ringeck, "die ritterlich kunst des langen schwerts," c. 1440