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

I would support the idea of independent certification.

Regards
John McKay
www.rpglanguage.com

----- Original Message ----- From: <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
Programming Supervisor
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0.1 Administrator
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623
Phone 419-479-5535
gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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