Comments on: Might There Be Staffing/Skill Shortages at Novell, Despite Looming Layoffs? http://techrights.org/2008/03/20/novell-support-complaints/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Sebastiaan Veld http://techrights.org/2008/03/20/novell-support-complaints/comment-page-1/#comment-7007 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:54:16 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/20/novell-support-complaints/#comment-7007 Sorry, Novell is clear about training and there are plenty of training and certification tracks moving from Netware to Linux.

CLA- Certified Linux Administrator
NCA- Novell Certified Administrator
NCE- Novell Certified Engineer

and others; take a look at http://www.novell.com/training/certinfo/ some just new and other are around for some time now.

]]> By: Ian http://techrights.org/2008/03/20/novell-support-complaints/comment-page-1/#comment-6926 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:30:30 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/03/20/novell-support-complaints/#comment-6926 I think you’re missing the point of that excerpt. It’s not about internal support at Novell or its employees. What it’s really hitting on is finding qualified external support for Novell’s products. Novell’s in a spot where just like the migration path away from NetWare, they need a migration path away from the CNA/CNE course track to something which fits their current offerings. Moreover, they need to make it worthwhile for people to follow a new track. There aren’t many people going for their CNE anymore. There are probably a nice size of people who are waiting to see what Novell does with their Linux based offerings before investing the time and money in a new track(which there is none released publically that I know of which matches the scope of the CNA/CNE). It’s a chicken and egg scenario.

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