Re: The Informix Certified Professional Program

Thillick wrote: > > Has no one being paying attention to Informix' new Vertical Marketing > plan? The idea of certification is the elimination of competition. By > decree all Informix employees will be 'certified' by the end of this year. Having once worked for Informix, there are a lot of things that can be said but won't. Informix has always had a marketing edge in selling their staff at premium rates. After all they have proprietary expertise on hand. (Like the source code ;-) Being certified means that at least I took the time to read the manual and understand it enough to regurgitate a passable response. What certification does not replace is things like IEEE and ACM membership. Degrees in Engineering from a 4 year University. Client referals. Having displayed knowlege of a clients business. Knowing how to write clean code the first time. These things are important. Certification does not guarantee this. I doubt that I will take the time to get certified. Informix / Sybase / Oracle / NeXT etc ... Not to mention CEUs .. All this comes from my pocket. [ Plus my own internet domain ;-] -Mikey