At 07:31 PM 3/18/2003 +0000, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: >Maccubbin, Duncan wrote: > > > > How is the industry supposed to keep up with this?? > >What's the issue? Not sure I'm seeing your point. What's wrong with Cisco >announcing that their product received some sort of certificaton?
Exactly.. I think the poster mistook the possibly ambiguous announcement as yet another CCXX cert. >Now, if you were concerned that Cisco has too many ways for people to get >certified and that the situation is getting out of hand, I might agree. I really am surprised at how many folks pour their heart/money into getting one after another. I'm also amazed at how many folks will try and devote a good portion of interview time to showing me their various certificates. After the first couple I pretty much grasp that you have enough short term memory to get through a multiple choice exam and we should really get back to talking about technologies. Cisco makes big bucks on these certifications. The recert requirements create a beautiful residual revenue stream making this business unit very attractive internally to Cisco. Since they doubled the cost of the CCIE recert, purely for profit, I have decided to let my certification lapse vs give in to this obvious cash grab. Kudos to Cisco for making their VAR channels one of their more lucrative revenue sources. >Priscilla > > > > > > "Cisco also announced today highly prestigious certification > > support across > > the entire PIX Family of security appliances. Certifications > > earned include > > the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4) > > certification, and > > both ICSA Labs firewall and IPSec certifications. These > > certifications > > provide customers with independent and objective validation > > that a company's > > product meets certain levels of quality and reliability, and > > are among the > > industry's most respected and stringent criteria for > > certification. > > Providing customers broad certification support across the > > Cisco PIX family > > within a common operating system increases operational > > efficiencies and > > lowers support and management costs." > > > > > > Duncan Maccubbin > > US Network Support, Cable and Wireless > > CCNA, CCNP, CSS1, MCSE4 > > Work (703)287-6975 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65689&t=65676 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
