[ale] May be of interest to some. Linux Cert.

[Adrin]

I cut and pasted this out of an email I get from certmag 

LPI and UnitedLinux Unite to Deliver New Certification
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has joined with UnitedLinux, an 
industry initiative that streamlines Linux development around a uniform 
distribution, to market and deliver a UnitedLinux professional 
certification program. 
 
"Three of the four members of UnitedLinux were charter sponsors of LPI 
from its very beginning," said Evan Leibovitch, LPI's president. 
"Caldera, which is now SCO, SuSE and Turbolinux were all charter 
sponsors at the highest level for LPI right at the beginning when we 
started out. Working together with UnitedLinux solidifies the fact that 
these companies have determined that rather than create their own 
certification programs from scratch, they prefer the idea of working 
within a community framework and working together with LPI to do an 
industry-wide standard certification as opposed to repeating the 
problems of the UNIX days, where every company did its own certification 
and its own UNIX and its own everything. The Linux world has learned 
from those mistakes, so you have companies that would rather participate 
in a  community project that's sustainable and respectable as opposed to 
everybody going out and rolling out their own." 
 
LPI and UnitedLinux will work together to design new exams specific to 
UnitedLinux. When these exams are passed along with the existing LPI 
Level 1 and Level 2 exams, candidates will be able to earn two new 
UnitedLinux certifications. UnitedLinux is a partnership of Linux 
companies, including Connectiva, The SCO Group, SuSE Linux AG and 
Turbolinux Inc., that are working together to create a uniform Linux 
distribution designed for business. UnitedLinux Version 1.0 was released 
in November 2002, and this version powers products sold by the four 
companies. Each company adds its own features and services.
 
According to Leibovitch, the momentum of LPI certification has been 
building steadily and will continue to grow. "We gave our first exam in 
the year 2000. Last year in April, we did our 10,000th exam. And last 
year in December, we did our 20,000th," he said.
 
The new UnitedLinux exams will be available sometime in the first 
quarter of 2003. LPI's existing Level 1 program consists of exams #101 
and #102. With the addition of exam #103, which will be UnitedLinux-
specific, candidates will be able to earn the UnitedLinux Certified 
Professional (ULCP) certification. The Level 2 program, which currently 
includes exams #201 and #202, will be expanded with the #203 
UnitedLinux-specific exam, which will lead to UnitedLinux Certified 
Expert (UCLE) certification.
 
LPI's vendor-neutral certification exams are available at both VUE and 
Prometric testing centers, as well as at various industry events, where 
certificants can often take exams for free. LPI certification never 
expires, and Leibovitch believes this sets LPI apart from many 
certifications in the industry.
 
"You'll never find a university saying, 'Well you got your computer 
science degree on mainframes; get it again on PCs or we're taking our 
degree back,'" said Leibovitch. "Since that's not happening, why should 
you ever come to a situation where yesterday you were certified and 
today you are not simply because you're not upgrading your software?" 
 
For more information, go to http://www.lpi.org. 

_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale