Hi sysops how about a certification forum

there are lots of unix-related techs i'd like to talk about like netapp or vertias or tsm and share certification tips or training manuals

Can we please have a forum to discuss certifaitcations.

There are several things called TSM. Since you mention TSM in the same breath as veritas and netapp, I assume that you mean Tivoli Storage Manager. We already have a forum to discuss these things: "Filesystems, Disks and Memory". Learning about Netapp to become certified and learning about Netapp to simply use one are very similiar. If we split the forum, then folks would forever be checking both forums to ensure that they didn't miss something. So I have to say that I'm not in favor of a separate certfication forum right now. But we'll see how everyone else feels. Does anyone else favor this proposed forum?

Hi perderabo,

I agree with what you say abou particular technologies and there not being a big difference between learning and certifying. I think there is value in a non-product-specific are on "education and certification", for people to discuss the value and difficulty of different certifications, and to swap certification-specific training resources.

I am building a library of training materials and am interested in trading with others who also have lots of training materials - i don't think it would be feasible to have such a discussion in a group oriented towards a specific OS or software.

thank you my friend
akbar.

For the most part, training materials tend to be copyrighted and not intended by the copyright owner to be distributed to others. So we cannot support that activity.

Fair enough - but there is lots of certification discussion that can happen without breaking copyright. Also i don't think it breaks copyright to trade original course material.

For instance I have course material from RSA and AIX and SANS courses I have taken. I have already read them but would be interested in trading for original Veritas Cluster training manual. I do not think this is illegal. It is recycling.

Whatever it is, we do not do that here. This is a specialized forum and we don't want to expand in the direction you are proposing.