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IBM and Red Hat Offer College Prep
Califa writes "IBM announced Tuesday it will work with Red Hat to bring universities up to speed in teaching college students open source skills." From the article: "The company said its research of technology training at universities around the world have shown a need for more open-standards offerings. About 75 percent of a group of CEOs interviewed by IBM's Business Consulting Services said education and a lack of qualified candidates are the two issues with the greatest impact on their business."
This could be a really good idea. It's been my opinion for about a year now that a class should be tought to all CS students on licensing, and ethics. OSS development directly requires a knowledge of both. But in reading the article it almost sounds as if RH and IBM would merely use the time to pimp their products versus and real world skills. I.E. "This is how you setup a RH IBM sevver 101"
Will the curriculum be "open source" as well?
While it is a nice notion, will it really be that beneficial? I am a few short months away from graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science, and I feel in no way prepared for the "real world" of computing.... which is why I'm going to give up my passion and get a real estate license.
In comes a bunch of trolls that cannot afford to buy an RHCE class to bash against the RHCE program.
/. and im tired about it.
Please please, just because YOU cant pay for it it doesnt mean its bad.
I just wanted to say this because its tipical in
RHCE is the best certification track for linux available. Period.
Yes, im RHCE and i dont know more now than before i took the exam (which is a REALLY good, no nonesense, hands on test of skills -simple too, if you know wtf youre doing-).
But i think most knowledgeable but-not-guru level IT people would benefit if they took it and they wanted to move to Linux.
NO SIG
simple answer:
They are trying to teach people to work for peanuts and be locked in (MCSE example above).
Unix admins make more than windows admins because "managers" understand pointyclicky pretty pictures.
They "think" that unix is harder (muuuhahahahahh, we'll just keep the secret) and therefore when forced to impliment it, are willing to pay for admins (or perish the thought, training for Windows admins)
Now the truth. Windows is infinitly harder to admin than unix. (think about it carefully for a second)
Windows admins have to deal with what is essentially a large sandbox full of ADD inflicted children and a bunch of diahretic cats. It's a constant struggle to keep yourself from killing children (user applications) while dodging the runny turds (virus/spy/ad ware). Add to this the fact that your manager is probably of the mindset that Microsoft has addressed these problems and it's YOUR fault that those skid and crush incidents keep happening.
Life sucks as a windows admin. Life is f'n glorious for my unix loving brethren (yes that sorta includes tha mac osx people too, but only begrudgingly, you with your fancy pointy clicky front ends to the raw text files)
Oh well, I feel better, not bitter.
The truth about Led Zep should never be told on
"I got passed over for a job or two because I didn't know application 'X'. Sure, I know the theory..."
That used to happen to me all the time. I blew one job interview by knowing how to configure something in BIND that worked a little differently in whatever they were using, and another by not doing a BASH loop the way one of the interviewers liked to write his, and there were several other cases like it. The problem is that most IT managers are techies who get promoted to management instead of good managers who got into tech, so they don't have the management skills and knowledge to realize that giving someone to a week to figure out the ins-and-outs of your particular software choice and it's config files is a lot easier then spending weeks or months looking for that "perfect" candidate.
Every time I look back on stupid shit like that I remember why I got out of IT and went to art school.
are the two issues with the greatest impact on their business"
Then they should get themselves some schooling and learn that the sort of work they expect for the money thay want to exchange is not competitive with other ways to spend ones time.
Yes, I know they are talking about the "issue" (when did problems become issues, sounds so feminine and touchy feely) of candidate education. Well perhaps the good old apprentice program might do them some good. Used ot be an employer looked at what someone was capable of and hten offered them a bit of time to develop and hone their skills.
These days they want the perfect fit for peanuts. "20+ years experience in CLISP AI development on military logistics simulators complying with mil specs 88-222 and sux-2000, familiarity with black powder ordnance handling. Location Honolulu Hawaii. Salary $44,000/annum, no COLA, employer will not pay relocation expenses, candidates without TS-SCI clearance and former Peace Corps volunteers will not be considered."
I'm serious as possum stew. This is the sort of crap one sees in job postings. Tell them you've got it all but you SCI expired last week and they don't have courtesy to reply.
Impact that in your colon you dumbass HR empty suits...