OE Certification

[rzr]

Is there a resaon why Progress does not provide certification for openedge and/or other products?
How do i call my self an openedge certified programmer?

 

[TomBascom]

Because there is no demand (from employers) for OE certification.

My sense is that the various certifications that people used to list on their resumes were all a bad joke, if not an outright "red flag", anyway.

 

[Cringer]

Heard of someone being interviewed who was fully certified in SQL but had no idea what a stored procedure was or what it would be used for.

 

[rzr]

forgive my ignorance... but why would being a certified xyz be a "red flag" ??

 

[TomBascom]

Because of people like those mentioned in the post prior

Basically there often seems to be a negative correlation between certifications and competence. And that negative correlation seems to become exponentially larger as the number of certifications on a resume rises.

Or maybe I'm just a curmudgeon

 

[Cringer]

Or maybe I'm just a curmudgeon

Nope - I completely agree...

 

[rzr]

Okay, now i agree .. or agreed for now... but thanks for your thoughts ...

 

[FrancoisL]

A OpenEdge certification would be so funny! If it anything like the licensing it would be a incomprehensible mess . You would get Certification Agent or Named User Certification . If your company has more then 50 programmer then you need a enterprise based certification that would offer a few more option but would cost 10x the price by programmer. Then you would have a progress certification maintenance fee each year that would be about 10% of your certification and if you don't pay for a few year , you would need to pay back all the maintenance that wasn't paid and a fee to get back your certification ....

Of course with all this , progress would setup no way of verifying certification and it would be based on the programmer good faith... Maybe they would setup a certification .lic file that would collect incomplete information on certified programmer so that it can be used by sales rep to blackmail people in paying more for the certification!

 

[rzr]

.. i hear you...