[NTLUG:Discuss] Is it worth it?

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Tue May 8 16:46:47 CDT 2001


WILLIAM PEARSON wrote:

> I'm pondering taking a course or studying to become a Red Hat Certified
> Engineer (RHCE). But before I do, I'm curious to know how desireable a cert
> like that is with employers. I'm already working on CNE, MCSE, and CCNA. Is
> the RHCE worth the money??

Depends on what you want to do with it.  If you want to be a sysadmin or something,
then it might well be worthwhile - but for a non-systems programmer (for example),
it's probably a waste of time.  Where I work (and we are rapidly becoming a Linux-only
shop), I don't think our recruiters would even know what the qualification *was*...and
I certainly wouldn't consider it important.

However, other environments will certainly feel very differently about it.


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