Re: iso 17799

[Victor Williams <vbwilliams () neb rr com>]

I don't know how far-fetched it could be...when the only requirement to 
have Cisco Premiere status with them (which gets you huge discounts with 
certain products) is to have a Cisco-certified person on staff a certain 
number of hours per day, and at least one CCIE, CCNA, and/or CSA on staff.

It seems they just cheapened the certification(s) by making this 
requirement.  It used to be that people with those certifications more 
than likely *might* know what's going on.  Nowadays, it's only to assure 
your company can buy anything they want at 60% off retail, direct from 
the manufacturer.  I've seen it in companies that weren't Fortune 
500...let alone ones that were.

If company is a Cisco shop and sells primarily Cisco equipment to their 
customers, it's completely to their advantage to send employee A to take 
a test for a couple hundred dollars, so they can turn around and buy a 
$22k 6500 series switch for under $16k.  That's a savings of at least 
$6k just for having someone on their staff who may/may not really know 
anything, but with an acronym behind their name.


Victor Williams

(snip)

> I've been told, though I cannot personally verify this, that a number of
> MNCs have people on their books whose *sole* job function is to study, sit
> and pass certification exams.
>
> To satisfy various partner requirements, auditing purposes, extra
> discounts, yada yada yada. Seems far-fetched, but there you have it.


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