Designed for all organizations, currently Jahia customers or not, this program includes free content migration.
Jahia, provider of Java-based open source CMS solutions, is launching a certified migration program for all organizations, whether they are running a former version of Jahia or any other solution on the market; this program is designed to aide in the secure migration to Jahia 6.5.
Yesterday, I received an email from SilverStripe Co-Founder, Sigurd Magnusson. For all the years I have been corresponding with Sigurd, I don't think I've ever seen him as excited as he was this time in breaking the news. SilverStripe, a web development company delivering open source content management systems (CMS) has achieved Certification for Windows Server 2008 R2 for version 2.4.0 of their flagship product, SilverStripe CMS. This is a world first, as the software is the only truly open source web application to achieve certification on the Windows platform.
What is a little different about this story is that it is not only SilverStripe's press relations people making a big deal about this story. Microsoft is making a big deal about the accomplishments of SilverStripe. Andrew Gordan, Microsoft's New Zealand’s Platform Strategy Manager writes:
A large amount of the innovation in the software world is happening on the web and in the cloud, and in addition to that, we are seeing increased awareness and acceptance of open source software on the Microsoft Windows platforms.
Microsoft's Certified for Windows programs are well known for indicating software and hardware products that have been thoroughly tested to work well on Microsoft Windows and as of today, SilverStripe CMS is the first Open Source web application to complete the comprehensive testing necessary to achieve "Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2" status.
In his own blog post, Sigurd mentions that the certification for SilverStripe has been a long but rewarding road. A large proportion of the SilverStirpe's community and clients use Microsoft servers, databases, and other technology. Over the past three years there an effort has been made for the SilverStripe CMS to work with Microsoft's operating system, web servers, and SQL Server database product.
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA – Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, announced the Kentico Developer Certification that showcases developer technology experiences using the progressively growing Kentico Developer platform.
“The Kentico Developer certification allows .NET developers with Kentico CMS development experience to demonstrate their competency and gain official recognition with Kentico CMS technology and profile themselves as Kentico CMS technology experts. ,” says Petr Palas, Kentico founder and CEO.“ It also allows our customers to easily identify experienced Kentico Certified Developer" he adds.
“Success of any web project, including maximized return on investment and reduced time-to-market, is dependent on the ability of developers to properly leverage the functionality and capabilities of Kentico CMS.” says Thomas Robbins, the Product Evangelist at Kentico. “With the new certified developer exam we are able to provide our customers with a quick and easy way to recognize developers highly skilled in the Kentico CMS technology.”
In order to receive the Kentico Developer Certification candidates must successfully complete an online exam designed to test the candidate’s knowledge and skills in fundamentals and best practices for building, deploying and maintaining websites with Kentico CMS 5 to deliver dynamic web site content.
“The Kentico Certified Developer exam allows developers to demonstrate their technology expertise and skills, helping them to succeed in today's competitive job market.” says Thomas Robbins, the Product Evangelist at Kentico.
Each candidate for the Kentico Developer Certification should have at least one year of experience in web application development using Kentico CMS, or should have attended a certified Kentico CMS 5 Developer training.
More information about the Kentico Certified Developer Exam is available at: http://www.kentico.com/Training/Certification.aspx
I am proud to say, I have never really worried whether I was certified or not. This Computerworld article gets right to the point:
Depending on whom you talk to, certification programs are either borderline rip-offs that provide little useful knowledge, or valuable hiring tools that make it easier for IT execs to pick the most promising new employees.
Available from vendors focusing on their own products, or outside organizations offering multi-vendor training, these certificate programs are expanding to fill the many specialized technology subsets that have multiplied along with the growth of data storage and other IT areas.
Now this isn't to say that I don't have a few IT certifications under the belt and didn't receive some benefit from them. One of the most intensive IT certifications of recent years was in IT security and another to "please" the crowd was a certification for migration to Microsoft's Server 2003. By the time I was done with those certifications though, I didn't know enough to get the job done.
"IT certifications are worth less than ever, and the value of non-certified technology skills has surged...Certifications are losing value because employers are looking for more in their workers than the ability to pass an exam; they want business-articulate IT pros."
