Re: What happened to Test 972: IBM Certified Specialist - ILE RPGProgrammer?

["John McKay" <jmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would support the idea of independent certification.

Regards
John McKay
www.rpglanguage.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: What happened to Test 972: IBM Certified Specialist - ILE 
RPGProgrammer?


> Sad as this is, IBM is probably laughing all the way to the bank as they
> continue to dismantle the platform piecemeal - and they still make a ton
> of $$$ in doing so. Maybe that should be the new definition of resilience.
>
> OTOH, maybe there's an opportunity for a large user group to fill the
> void. Perhaps an IBM RPG certification doesn't mean much these days, but a
> 'peer based' certification would be quite valuable knowing it means
> acceptance and acknowledgement by the 'major players' are in our
> environment - many of which are here on this list daily, and/or in in our
> inbox as providers/contributors to our subscriptions. Come to think of it
> I'd rather be certified by say Jon & Susan, Scott Klement and Aaron
> Bartell etc. than by the (mostly invisible) machine that is IBM.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards, Jerry
>
> Gerald Kern - Information Technology
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