From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 17 15:59:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076971500A for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26017; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:56:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd026014; Sat Apr 17 15:56:46 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22436; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:56:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904172256.PAA22436@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Redhat Certified Engineer To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:56:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, marcus@miami.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990416203918.A53178@ontario.mooseriver.com> from "Josef Grosch" at Apr 16, 99 08:39:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:43:22PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but it seems Redhat is offering > > > certification much like Cisco or Microsoft. I think a FreeBSD Ceritifed > > > Engineer would be a great thing to tag to my signature. Any plan for > > > this? Need any help putting something together? Is this even a good > > > idea? > > > > This is old news, but worth repeating if people are not aware > > of what's going on: > > > > They have already processed 1000 students through this program > > at US$2500 a student, and made US$2.5M in the process. > > > Minus, of course, their costs such as equipment, teachers, administration, > etc. Yes, they made money but not 2.5x10**6 dollars. The point is, they made a profit, and there is opportunity there, if advocating FreeBSD isn't enough to get you interested in doing this type of thing, then maybe the money will be. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message