[AusNOG] Time for AusSOG I think (was Re: Happy Sysadminday)

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Mon Aug 2 16:39:23 EST 2010


On 2/08/10 3:50 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:

> No, managers that do not understand this are from both genders.  Put
> folks in a box and keep them there.  Easier to understand what it is
> they're managing when they don't have trust in the engineers or
> background in the technical area they're managing.  Currently, certs
> are vendor lockins to the box.  We need vendor neutral certs.


I don't think that vendor neutral certs will help here. If you've got a 
Cisco, Juniper, or "vendor neutral network competence" cert you're still 
going in that "network guy" box.

Mark.
(just because I have a JNCIP-M cert that doesn't make me (just) a 
network guy :-)



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