• jshahan (6/23/2015)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/23/2015)

    I loved Netware's performance on IPX v Windows early stuff, but certainly Netware was slow to move to IP based work. That was an issue, and NDS was a huge step up in complexity. It might have worked better than domains in AD, but it caused lots of people to rethink their choice.

    And remember how impressive the CNE credential was initially? For a while you could make hiring decisions based on that (at least in terms of skills). Then it became like a real estate license. We hired some poor guy with a CNE card and soon it was obvious that he couldn't do the work. Apparently he had memorized the answers for the CNE test from some kind of cheat sheet that was widely available. Come to think of it, the MCSE credential had similar issue for a while. I think they've made improvements.

    I certainly remember it and worked with a few CNEs that weren't worth the paper. Not sure the MCSE is better by itself.