NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › Linux in the enterprise
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Linux in the enterprise

post #1 of 6
5/14/04 at 12:29am
Thread Starter 
Ok guys the powers that be at work have decided that "we" will support Linux. So now the certfication process starts. My question is what the most prevalent distro in the enterprise space? Second, of the Linux certs out there, in your opinions, which cert caries the most weight? Any good links for certifications you could give me would be great. Thanks guys.
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 6
5/14/04 at 12:47am
Red Hat is by far the most popular with PHBs, though techies tend to prefer Debian. Mandrake and Gentoo are pretty much non-existant as far as business use goes.

As far as certs, I've founf them to be mostly, if not completely, useless in businesses where Linux is prevalent. Unlike Windows shops, Linux shops tend to place a lot more value on what you know, and a lot less on where you learned it.

That may be just my experience, though.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 6
5/14/04 at 3:36am
Slackware is a distro I settled on after trying a few.

Slacker.NET is powered by Slackware!
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 6
5/14/04 at 11:32am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by TrickM
Red Hat is by far the most popular with PHBs, though techies tend to prefer Debian. Mandrake and Gentoo are pretty much non-existant as far as business use goes.

As far as certs, I've founf them to be mostly, if not completely, useless in businesses where Linux is prevalent. Unlike Windows shops, Linux shops tend to place a lot more value on what you know, and a lot less on where you learned it.

That may be just my experience, though.
I can appreciate the fact that certs can be useless pieces of paper. But you have to remember, generaly it's not the techies that decide who/where the help comes from. This will mostly be pitched to CFO, CEO, and comptrolers who don't know jack but like the alphabet soup. I and the other guy that will be doing this have been using Linux in various flavors for several years. In fact I used to do *nix in a testing environment for HP. It's not so much being able to do it as having the paper that says we can do it. Hope that came out right.

Thanks for the ideas, keep em coming.
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 6
5/14/04 at 11:41am
Well, like I was saying, all that stuff before was based on just my experience... whether or nor any of it it representative of what goes on in the real world, or in your situation, is debatable.

I guess another way to put it would be: I have no clue what certs are respected. I haven't worked for anyone yet who respected 'em.
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 6
5/25/04 at 9:52am
If you go the RedHat route, they have their own certification process.

I once gave a seminar on the other side of a partition from one of the RedHat classes and checked out their materials. I have to say I was fairly impressed. Sure, quite a bit was dedicated to what logins and passwords are at the beginning, but their materials in the later sections were really quite excellent. Our employees here have done it. I believe they even have self-guided certification with on-line tests.

YMMV.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Linux & Other OS's
NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › Linux in the enterprise