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[Rick Tomaschuk]

I've pondered this dilemma for many years. My solution has and continues
to be to phase Microsoft products out of my life as soon as possible. If
a client company stubbornly refuses to drop some area of a MS
implementation I seriously rethink my relationship with that company and
have often walked away from $$ to avoid having to work with MS products.
Sounds tough but my experience has shown this to be the best solution. I
have no plans to become MS certified...ever. Life without MS (sounds
like a disease) is actually getting easier as time passes due to the
evolution of Open source and commercial Linux offerings. I've also
learned to omit computers all together in some areas of my life since
they only seem to complicate things. Just because a person has a
background in computers this does not mean that person has to limit
their money making efforts to the computer industry. Sometimes the best
solution to a computing problem is to imagine life without the
particular application and re-think the problem.
RickT


On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 20:26 -0500, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> > If you don't have a Microsoft Certification you can be at a
> > disadvantage. 
> You are probably right. Just a day ago I met with a person who owns a 
> medium-size company, a sort of friend.
> 
> He asks: didn't you think about getting MS certification?
> 
> Me: No. I know enough Windows to administer it or offer help to others. 
> And if there is a need, I can learn myself.
> 
> He: But if there is a real problem they (from MS) will not even talk 
> with a someone who is not MS-certified ...
> 
> Take also into account that getting a certification is rather an 
> expensive and time-wasting process. That it is expensive, I now fully 
> understand ;)
> 
> zb.
> 
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