[ILUG] Linux/UNIX certification

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:58:21 +0000
  | From: Thomas Bridge <thomas at wibble.to>
  | 
  | On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:04:44AM +0000, thomas thumb wrote:
  | > And thirdly if I went for a unix development job in your company would
  | > a unix admin cert help my application?  Would I be more likely to get
  | > an interview?
  | 
  | Development is different - if you mean writing code.    I wouldn't pay
  | much attention to system admin abilities in that situation, though having
  | some awareness of systems practices is still an asset,

 if all the person does is write code s/he is not
 a developer.  ;-)     not being quite so pedantic,
 a plausible knowledge/experience of *ix system
 administration _is_ useful for some sorts of
 design, document, development, debug, test,
 deployment, and maintenance --- an obvious(?)
 example might be an administrative toolset.

 I concur that the knowledge is an asset in any
 situation.

cheers!
	-blf-
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