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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!kyma
- From: kyma@shell.portal.com (Matt J Young)
- Subject: Certification Program
- Message-ID: <C0pxL2.E5D@unix.portal.com>
- Summary: A Very Bad Idea
- Sender: news@unix.portal.com
- Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe
- Organization: Portal Communications Company
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:00:38 GMT
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- Network Certification
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- Network General has launched a program to certify network engineers via
- a certification test based upon existing network technology (Comm Week).
- The engineers would be certified from tests based upon products from
- existing vendors.
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- I cannot think of a more insidious program designed to stifle
- innovation. The idea stinks of an effort to codify existing network
- architectures, preventing a more advanced form of distributed processing
- to emerge. HP is doing itself a dis-service by joining the program.
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- I have seen a lot of maneuvers in Silicon Valley, designed to protect
- technology, and all of these have led to a steady outflow of innovation
- from Silicon Valley to points elsewhere. In all cases the CEOs of the
- local companies engage in high-jinks designed not to create new
- multi-vendor solutions for the customer, but to protect older
- technology or control the development of new. This certification
- program falls into the later group.
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