Re: PostgreSQL Certified Engineer program ...

SRA-OSS certification was taken over by LPIC Japan.  Now it is
labelled as "Open source database certificate" (sorry, I'm not sure
about official English label.  They're all in Japanese), which was
developed by many people from many organizations.   In fact, at
present, it is just PostgreSQL.

They publish textbook.   PDF version is free.   Several Japanese
companies provide a course for this certificate.   SRA-OSS is one of
them.   Because they're run by LPIC, it is regarded as neutral one.

I'm a little bit involved at very early stage.   I understand that
LPIC Japan began this certificate locally because the first needs will
be in Japan.   At present, almost all the materials and pages are in
Japanese but I think LPIC Japan can talk with people interested in
localizing/globalize the certificate.

Regards;
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Koichi Suzuki

2012年4月18日2:50 Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>:
> On 04/17/2012 01:02 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>> I don't think this is a reasonable stance to take in the absence of any
>> community-approved certification.  Certifications are a genuine need,
>> and if the community isn't going to fullfill them, we should at lease
>> encourage vendors to do so.
>
>
> My point was just that such certifications should be clearly labeled as
> being company created.  If you look at the Pearson site where SRA's tests
> were offered, they were listed as "PostgreSQL CE (SRA OSS) Certification
> Testing".  That was fine.
>
>
>> Maybe this is a business opportunity for 2Q, eh?
>
>
> 2ndQuadrant will issue certificates for students who successfully complete
> the workshop exercise challenges in our training classes.  But we are very
> careful to call them 2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Certificates.
>
>
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