I'm the instructor (and the author of) the NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) "Open source unix classes." The NJIT curriculum, while non-credit and classified as "Professional Development' is the Only University level course in the world that is both sanctioned as a bona fide certificate program (certificate endorsed by NJIT) AND endorsed by the FreeBSD foundation. (If you don't believe me, e-mail Robert Watson of the core FreeBSD team.)
NJIT offers 3 courses in the BSD unix certification program: Intro to Unix, Unix Admin I and Unix Admin II in the certification track. Until a year ago, we also offered Solaris certification training: preparation for the Sun Solaris exam --which in the past 2 weeks has been announced as yet another open-source track. SUN plans, apparently, on basing its business plan on earning a profit from it's proprietary java implementations and it's hardware development. Unlike Sun, NJIT has placed 100 percent of it's successful certificate candidates in IT jobs, and all on a track to system administrator positions. The NJIT open source unix prgram remains a demanding and difficult program --not unlike commercial system administrator positions. While our selection process is both stringent and competitive, we welcome potential candidates to apply. Our next in-class instruction begins in early October; out next eLearning instruction begins September 1, 2004. http://cpe.njit.edu/noncredit/#opensourceunix Follow the links, and find out about our program: or. alternately, write [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me) for further details. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:49 pm, Bob Perry wrote: > Vulpes Velox wrote: > >On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:33:36 -0400 > > > >Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>They offer training and classes that come with a cert afterwards, > >>> > >>> > >>>from what I can tell. Would be nice just to see a place that offers > >>> > >>> > >>>just a cert and no classes. > >> > >>If I read the site correctly, they offer both classroom and, what > >>they call, eLearning for their Distance Learning students. > > > >Unless they are offering a major difference in price, it still looks > >like way to much for just a cert and still a class. > > Certainly can't argue with you regarding their price. > It's a lot more than I can afford. > > FreeBSD can be a handful at times. I certainly would like > to understand and appreciate it more than I do. The cert > would be secondary. > > Bob _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
