Obsidian signs deal to offer Ubuntu training
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| South African Linux and open source specialists, Obsidian, will from March be
| offering official training for the Ubuntu Certified Professional programme.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2138
LinuxCertified Announces its next "Linux Fundamentals" Course.
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| This two-day introduction to Linux broadens attendees horizons with a
| detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively
| use a Linux system as a valuable tool.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/10402.html
Related:
Australian open source workers earn more money
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| IT workers who specialise in free and open source software are earning more
| than the national average for IT, according to the results of Australia's
| first open source census.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/69448,open-source-workers-earn-more-money.aspx
Linux Job Market Trends: Galloping Forward
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| If you’re a Linux specialist looking for the best paying area of the country,
| your best bet is – no surprise – Silicon Valley, where Linux pros make
| $96,578 (but a cup of coffee costs $11.25). Other top-paying Linux areas are
| Washington, D.C. ($86,882), Los Angeles ($86,618), and New York ($86,305).
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3697896
2007: Where the Tech Jobs Are
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| ...open source and Linux skills are very hot. "Linux is one of the fastest
| growing, if not required, then recommended skills that most of the
| sysadmins and operations people have," Melland says. "If you're a systems
| administrator and you don?t have Linux experience, you might want to seek
| that out."
|
| [...]
|
| All this migration to Linux and open source means that job openings are
| zooming. Based on Dice statistics, Linux as a recommended skill is up 51%
| this year, and roughly 150% in the last two years.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3649436
Linux and Open Source: How They Affect HR Professionals
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/637577/linux_and_open_source_how_they_affect_hr_professionals/index.html?source=r_technology
Linux jobs abound, tech job service says
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3892050451.html
City of Munich is looking for additional Linux specialists
http://www.marsmenschen.com/index.php/2006/12/22/city-of-munich-is-looking-for-additional-linux-specialists-technical-system-integration/
Spending on open source support services in Canada to soar
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| The market for open source support services is going to boom over
| the next five years, according to a recent Gartner survey.
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http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=42488&cid=6
Earning Your Linux Diploma
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| The trend today is for computer professionals to move away from proprietary
| software products in favor of developing their industry-wide skills, Lacy
| added.
|
| [...]
|
| IT professionals looking to be Linux certified have two types of programs to
| consider. One certification track is vendor neutral, concentrating on core
| Linux programs and command line skills that apply to all Linux distributions.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60935.html
Skills shortage: it's mind over matter
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| The demand for SAP skills, for example, is expected to be high in 2008.
| Demand for skills in new areas such as open source, Linux, Web 2.0 and AJAX
| are almost certainly bound to be high next year too. And surprisingly, there
| is a growing demand for good, old-fashioned mainframe skills as the Baby
| Boomer generation retires and leaves a gap in supporting legacy systems.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/14/skills_shortage_learning/
For Linux admins, career options remain plentiful
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| Thanks for the advice, Brent. The future looks bright for Linux. Anything
| else you want to tell our readers?
|
| Don't worry about getting an MCSE, Linux is where it's at right now.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1280915,00.html
Thoughts on the Linux job market
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| IT jobs surveyThe Foote Partners report comparing average pay for certified
| IT skills versus non-certified IT skills got a lot of people talking. While
| news that the average salary for non-certified professionals was higher in
| the third quarter of 2007 came as a shock to some, others were not as
| surprised.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/26/thoughts-on-the-linux-job-market/
Noncertified IT pros make more than those with certified skills, report shows
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| A new report from industry research firm Foote Partners LLC finds that the
| average pay for noncertified IT skills topped that for certified
| professionals while compensation for IT jobs increased again in the third
| quarter of 2007. CEO and Chief Research Officer, David Foote calls this “a
| significant event” that has not occurred in the industry since 2000.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/16/noncertified-it-pros-make-more-than-certified-skills-report-shows/
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| The Scary World of Linux Computers.
|
| Dunkelberger likely wasn't intending to suggest that the iPhone was
| running Linux, but instead that it is a full computing environment
| with multiple vectors for potential exploits to attack. It is
| interesting that he brought up Linux however, because it is a scary
| subject for IT staff beholden to Microsoft.
|
| The majority of Microsoft oriented corporate IT staff I've worked with
| have a sort of reverential fear of Linux. They like to talk about it
| in a respectful sort of way, but they are often afraid to actually use
| it. Deploying a Linux server without an outside support agreement is a
| very scary task to users who have felt safe for years in their
| codependent relationship with Microsoft.
|
| After investing tens of thousands of dollars into their troubled
| relationship, after spending sleepless nights nursing NT servers back
| to health after they fall off the wagon to binge on worms and the
| other malware they have a genetic propensity to be addicted to, after
| growing dependent upon calling up the Redmond Father's TechNet for
| advice on how to deal with the regular schizoid mania and subsequent
| crashing of Windows, it's difficult to start over with something
| entirely new.
|
| IT managers are a whipped bunch. Linux is an allure associated with
| danger, like a pretty girl on the bus who smiles at the haggard,
| middle aged family man. She's just being friendly, not inviting him
| into a blissful world. He knows he has to think about his commitments
| to Microsoft, all of the fighting that would have been for nothing,
| all of the holding back of hair that he's already dealt with and wants
| to use as credit toward an established relationship. It's too much
| starting over, too late in the game.
|
| Today's adherents of Microsoft are like the COBOL programmers in the
| 90s: too old to learn new tricks, and too tired to even want to try.
| They are dinosaurs, dependent upon resisting change to maintain their
| proprietary world.
|
| Change isn't resisted successfully for long, but holdout adherents can
| oppose progress and tenaciously hold things up for longer periods of
| time than one might imagine possible.
|
| Is Linux Really a Problem?
| Of course, there are lots of phones that run Linux already--far more
| than run Windows Mobile--and they are not plagued by security
| problems.
|
| There are also tens of millions of embedded routers and phone systems
| running Linux or its BSD cousin, and none have suffered a scourge of
| security rashes anything remotely like Microsoft's Windows. Perhaps
| security isn't just a product of being powerful or having market
| share.
|
| Why would the iPhone's closed BSD environment be a special security
| risk? Hackers working on the iPhone have to build and install their
| own shell before they can even control it in ideal settings in a lab.
|
| If iPhone enthusiasts can't hack their own phones without first
| manually installing their own root access and shell environment, why
| are pundits distributing scary stories about the potential for iPhones
| to turn on their human masters and form a rebellion mechanical army of
| robot terrorists?
|
| Why didn't these flacks ever tell us about their brainstorming efforts
| to imagine security problems for Windows Mobile devices?
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q3.07/8E67109A-41FD-4CB1-B92A-4B038428FAA2.html
Macs on the network: Time to panic?
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| The facts reveal a coming resurgence. Apple sold 36% more Macs in the second
| quarter than the same quarter last year.
|
| [...]
|
| or the most part, connecting a Mac to a corporate LAN doesn't have a
| world-shattering effect on performance or support. According to William
| Green, director of networking at the University of Texas in Austin, the Mac
| has had a minimal impact on the school's infrastructure.
| "All OSs behave differently; if you have a multivendor environment, you have
| to deal with the differences," said Green. "There have not been any special
| problems related to Macs."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9035318&intsrc=hm_ts_head
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