[BSDcert] Re: cert semantics

[Tyr]

Jerry B. Altzman wrote:

>Why "cheapen" a cert by having something that is basically wallpaper?
>Is there an MS "user" cert? (I don't know.)
>Ask yourself: what is this *for*? What do I want to *certify*? Who would care?
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IBM AIX has a user certification. It's basically unix user level 
commands, knowledge of ls, grep, cat, redirection, etc.
It's useful for people who don't need to administer a system but do need 
to show some proficiency in a unix environment, like programmers. I 
regularly have to (re)educate our COBOL programmers and would advocate 
this kind of certification although I've never seen one 'in the wild'.

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