From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: On future conferences |
Date: | 2006-10-02 17:28:57 |
Message-ID: | 20061002172857.GG32410@phlogiston.dyndns.org |
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:49:27PM -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote:
> company out there...and many others. Their problem is more one of
> offering training to support their sales machine (I'd wonder if it is
> even a profit center for them)...
I think this is an important observation. "Certification" in many
technologies in fact has nothing to do with producing competent
administrators or users. It's instead a sales technique, in which
the certified pay for the privilege of being indoctrinated in the
world-view of the producers of the technology (yes, I wrote that in a
deliberately inflammatory way. It's a exaggeration). It is
sometimes the case that such certification happens to be technically
as good as can be; that isn't to say that it isn't still primarily a
sales effort.
A
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