More Thoughts On JBOSS Certification
Before I spend time, effort and money on a
certification, I always do a little informal research. I check the top job
boards to get a feel for the market demand for a given skill. Prior to my interview with Marc and his
pals, I checked what the boards had to say about demand for JBOSS app
server skills versus skills in the top two commercial offerings. Here are
the results, as of 11/04/02:
Dice
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Flipdog.com
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JBOSS | 23
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JBOSS | 20
| |
Websphere | 586
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Websphere | 200+
| |
Weblogic | 425
|
Weblogic | 200+
|
Careerbuilder.com
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Monster.com
| |
JBOSS | 11
|
JBOSS | 22
|
|
Websphere | 184
|
Websphere | 681
|
|
Weblogic | 159
|
Weblogic | 491
|
Websphere and Weblogic experience currently seems more
useful if you're seeking to win contracts or obtain full time
employment. So should you spend the
money on the JBOSS cert? I spoke
with someone who got certified a few months back. He said that he had yet
to make his money back, but that he got a lot of value and knowledge out of
the training. Does he think JBOSS certification is worth it overall? His
words: "the jury is still out."
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CB:
Can you tell me a bit about the JBOSS certification and the affiliate
program?
BS:
It's basically a way for us to grow our business from a
first level perspective... people out in the field working directly with
customers, doing implementations, doing
project-based work. We don't really want to own project based-work. We don't
want to grow our business in that capacity.
But we recognize the need for the use of our brand. And these people [the affiliates] are backed
up by our core [development team]. So you go through training. You get
certified. You get the ability to use our mark... We actually push a lot of
business down to our affiliates... Mostly because we can't necessarily service
every [business opportunity] that we're
seeing now.
CB:
So a consultant interested in the program would have to pony
up...?
BS:
...A five thousand dollar investment. $3,250 of that goes to the cost of
training... 4 days with these guys [points to Marc, Scott]... And the rest of it goes towards our
certification [as a consultant].
CB:
How much customer demand is there for work done by your
affiliate partners?
BS:
The program has only been around for about four months, five
months, and most of the early adopters have made their money back already... We
make zero outward-bound sales efforts at this point. We plan on changing that...
so we think the demand will obviously go a lot higher, but it's nothing we can predict, accurately.
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November 27, 2002
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