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From: Deamon on 30 Sep 2009 08:43
I am preparing for the sun certified solaris system admin exams and I
am thinking is the solaris cert worth it anymore because of the oracle
sun merger. Oracle might phase our solaris and boom i will have to get
recertified on unbreakable linux .


Please i need some advice
From: Richard B. Gilbert on 30 Sep 2009 09:50
Deamon wrote:
> I am preparing for the sun certified solaris system admin exams and I
> am thinking is the solaris cert worth it anymore because of the oracle
> sun merger. Oracle might phase our solaris and boom i will have to get
> recertified on unbreakable linux .
>
>
> Please i need some advice

I think that you may find that hiring managers are more impressed by
experience than by certifications.

There is sometimes a big difference between regurgitating what you
learned in the classroom and/or from a book and solving real world
problems. The classroom/book is finite. The real world is much bigger
than that.
From: Chris Cox on 30 Sep 2009 10:14
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 05:43 -0700, Deamon wrote:
> I am preparing for the sun certified solaris system admin exams and I
> am thinking is the solaris cert worth it anymore because of the oracle
> sun merger. Oracle might phase our solaris and boom i will have to get
> recertified on unbreakable linux .

Given the debacle, I don't think Oracle can afford to get rid of Solaris
now (though it could have been an option when this all started).

Cert worthwhile? Oracle is sending two very different messages. The
non-hype message is that they're bleeding something like $100 million a
week (month?) as this deal keeps getting delayed and delayed. Since I
don't
see an end in sight yet, I'll say that this might cost Oracle an extra
billion they didn't plan for. As for the all hype message (supposedly
designed to stop the bleeding), that is, the message that Oracle is
more pro-Sun than Sun was (arguably that wouldn't take much)... then
possibly Sun will come back and take over the entire universe!

So... IMHO, it depends on which message has more truth behind it.

Sun and now, especially Oracle, is trying to paint some bad mindshare
light on IBM (I know this is going to sound weird) by ensuring us that
all of the blood loss has gone to IBM. This could be to protect
Oracle's unbreakable pro-Linux stance, might be to do some side damage
to HP.. not sure. Again, you'll have to make up you own mind as to
why IBM is nabbing up all of the Sun customers... at least that's what
the media is getting fed.

Personally, I don't see a rosy future for Sun. And I expect to see the
others (HP-UX, AIX, Red Hat, Novell SUSE) picking up because of it.

But the important thing is that McNealy and Schwartz will be filthy
rich... which should make all Sun users very happy (right?).


From: John D Groenveld on 30 Sep 2009 13:04
In article <2cfd705a-8830-43c8-8296-eb34873c31a6(a)k4g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Deamon <persistence911(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>I am preparing for the sun certified solaris system admin exams and I
>am thinking is the solaris cert worth it anymore because of the oracle
>sun merger. Oracle might phase our solaris and boom i will have to get
>recertified on unbreakable linux .

You need to ask Catbert(s) what the Oracle salescritters have been
telling them about the future of Oracle ERP for Unbreakable Linux
since Larry Ellison called Solaris "overwhelmingly the best
open-systems operating system on the planet."
<URL:http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/22/ellison_explains_sun_merger/>

Unbreakable Linux seems destined for the same fate as $2B Cobalt Linux
and Sun Linux 5.0 whether the merger is blocked by the EU taxman
or not.

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
From: solx on 1 Oct 2009 05:32
Deamon wrote:
> I am preparing for the sun certified solaris system admin exams and I
> am thinking is the solaris cert worth it anymore because of the oracle
> sun merger. Oracle might phase our solaris and boom i will have to get
> recertified on unbreakable linux .
>
>
> Please i need some advice

If you want to work for a Sun Reseller it is a requirement I have been
told. If you prep a Sun for a customer and it breaks then Sun will cover
the repair only if certified so I have been told by a Reseller.
Some employers prefer experience others want exams, if you are not
paying for the exams I would definitely take them.
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