On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 21:42, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 20:55, Craig White wrote:
> > Dyslexia?
> > 
> > Microsoft Clicking Solutions Expert?
> > It's Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
> > 
> > I thought that might be what you were getting at but it is MCSE. There
> > are many different Linux certifications too.
> 
> Sorry, yeah it was a typo - but in my remembering of the acronym.  I've
> fixed it in the poll on the website.
> 
> I'm not trying to say that certifications are bad, I'm saying that
> people are trained in tools that aren't on Linux.  If you know
> Microsoft, you're going to choose Microsoft.  I'm betting that most RHCE
> do not install Debian on their servers - not because it's bad, but more
> because it isn't what they are familiar with.
----
there is a bit of what you're familiar with but what I have found is
that knowledge is very much transferable. While I learned Microsoft
Windows NT before I stumbled into Linux, the knowledge of Windows made
it much easier to comprehend what was happening in Linux and much of the
CLI in DOS/Windows came from UNIX anyway. Of course, I had pretty
thoroughly digested the Macintosh OS before Windows NT and before
Macintosh, I had a pretty thorough understanding of DOS and before that,
CP/M and Apple DOS 3.3   -   It all pretty much follows along. I really
feel clumsy looking at Novell though   ;-)   I thought that remote
terminals on PDP and creating input files (was it lined?) was about as
low tech as it got - of course there was DOS's edlin (early vi). Damn,
I'm old.

As for certifications...I know some real lightweights with MCSE and that
pretty much convinced me it's like worrying about passing the test for a
realtor's license. There are other certifications for Linux besides Red
Hat. 

As for one Linux vs. another, I have played with enough to figure out
where many of the things are and yes, there's a learning curve to each
distro, but it's like moving from a manual typewriter to an electric to
a computer keyboard...eventually you get the touch.

Many choose Microsoft because it's the devil that they know (or rather,
the devil that they think that they know). What I always heard about the
psychology of purchasing - whether it is at the grocery store or Costco
or where ever...we choose our purchases emotionally and defend our
purchases rationally. This makes a poll look like swiss cheese.

Sorry about the hard time on the acronym - couldn't help it - rain and
overcast gave me a dark feeling today.

Craig

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