Yippee... a response. ...Skeeve
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: Disappointed - Lack of support for RHCE's in Australia > > > > Maybe someone @ RedHat will listen if I post here... There was no > response from any of the other addresses. > > > ...Skeeve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Skeeve Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:25 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Natalie Cramp'; 'Dean Samuels'; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Disappointed - Lack of support for RHCE's in Australia > > > > To Whom can make a difference, > > Since becoming a RHCE over a year ago, I have been quite disappointed > with the lack of support for RHCE. > > There has been VERY little press/marketing in Australia to promote the > Certification in the I.T media or to create awareness among the I.T > recruitment field. > > Products like the Enterprise servers are fantastic, but > unlike other OS > companies like Microsoft, Novell and others, we cant get free > copies of > the Advanced Server/Enterprise families to be able to learn > them... I am > an RHCE who has never even seen a AS server, much less know about > administrating and rolling them out. > > About all I received ever from RedHat Asia Pacific was my couple of > shirts, a cap and my certificate, and monthly emails telling > me I should > do more expensive training. > > I love RedHat, but find it a constant battle to represent it in my > workplace and industry against stalwarts who are Debian or BSD > fanatics... I say "But RedHat is a REAL company, with certification, > consultants, box sets, and so on"... but it means little when RedHat > itself does almost NOTHING for you. > > I would like to see a Register on the RedHat Asia Pacific > website, with > all listed RHCE's and their physical locations and specialties... so > when people need work done, they can go look for the right person. > > I am also disappointed that I have to compete DIRECTLY with RedHat > AsiaPac for consulting work... how can I possibly? I have had 5 > occasions so far when someone has said to me, "why would they talk to > anyone else but RedHat themselves - they charge reasonably". This is > very hard to compete against. > > I want to see: > > - Mailing list in APAC region and world for RHCE's so we can > discuss and > help each other out... the other OS's have this, why don't we? > - Access to Software from RedHat - Enterprise Suite, RH Database, etc > etc like Microsoft MSDN and so on, where their Certified people have > access to ALL the latest software and Betas as soon as they are > available. > - Access to Enterprise Network for above > - Access to lead generation from RedHat APAC... > - The RH APAC website updated... the last news on there is from 27 > August... some 7 months ago... get serious. > - Some sort of involvement from RH APAC to kick off some sort of > 'Community' for RedHat Certified people in Australia > - Emails answered... over 1-2 weeks ago I emailed RedHat APAC about > becoming a Reseller... and got no response. > - The RedHat Certified Service Provider Programme... $25,000 > US$ ? That > is out of this world.... > > Or I may have to start looking at certification in other areas and > leaving RedHat behind, which is where I feel it is presently leaving > people like me.... I personally know 5 RHCE's, and they feel the same. > > > _______________________________________________________ > Skeeve Stevens, RHCE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: www.skeeve.org - Telephone: (0414) 753 383 > Address: P.O Box 1035, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia > > eIntellego - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.eintellego.net > _______________________________________________________ > Si vis pacem, para bellum > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
