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Paul Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
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Your comments show that you don't understand the details of this situation.
If you don't have the MPE/iX certifications, you can't get them now. Only
the people who received the certifications originally, are affected by this
program because their certifications are restored as "inactive". That means
we can now have access again to the HP Certified Professionals web site.
There, we are encouraged to obtain additional certifications on other
disciplines. 

There will be loss of HP3000 professionals continually over the next few
years. This means those HP3000 customers who wait to migrate for a few years
won't have the talent pool to choose from for help in their migration
projects. It will be important for these customers to be able to find
certified HP3000 professionals who have the proper technical skills to
assist them in their future migrations. There are still a large number of
small and medium sized customers who have made the choice to homestead for
some time in the future.

MPE-Education.Com has been contacted by several companies who have expressed
interest in MPE training and some have been invoiced for the MPE/iX
Fundamentals class in November.   


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-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim
Chance
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:38 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] MPE Certification Announcement

I a 22 yr. IT guy with 16 yrs. HP3k and personally I don't know why anyone
would want to pursue or care about this particular cert. Just my opinion. As
much as I hate it, the HP3k market, shops, places with it fully running
production, conferences/workshops, new sales, new ERP on that platform, and
technical knowledge is DEAD or quickly DYING. When will folks realize this?
Turnover to other platforms and skills is at an all time high. Universities
and corporations are de-commissioning there boxes at an astounding rate. How
do I know this, by being a contractor since 1997. I could go on and on about
this trend. I asked......who was it, I forget, but some vendor who puts on
training to become MPE cert isn't getting ANY paying students, none. So why
does the board or anyone else lobby for something that frankly - and
realistically, just plan out isn't in "demand"? I appreciate efforts, but
really? I can think of a dozen former and/or dwindling HP3k guys who are now
pursuing MS cert's; there is no way they'd want to spend $ or time on
certifying as MPE. 

Hmmmmm.

--- donna hofmeister <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> The OpenMPE Board of Director's is pleased to announce that HP has 
> agreed to reinstate the credentials for certified MPE/iX System 
> Administrators and Presales Professionals.  This effort, led by Board 
> member Paul Edwards, indicates that success is possible even when the 
> odds seem insurmountable!
>  
> The Board is continuing to advocate with HP for the tests to be 
> re-administered so that certificate holders can regain their active 
> status and people wishing to document their knowledge of MPE can 
> achieve certification.
>  
> If you'd like to read more about this, please visit:
>
http://3000newswire.blogs.com/3000_newswire/2006/08/3000_certificat.html
>  
> If MPE certification is important to you, please speak out to let HP 
> know that you want it!
> 
> For the Board of Directors,
> 
> Donna Hofmeister
> Secretary
> 
> Donna Hofmeister, HP-CSA  Sr. System Programmer dgarverick -at- longs 
> -dot- com
> 925-210-6631              Longs Drug Stores
> 
> >>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<
> 
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  Seeking PERMANENT employment within a shop that has any of the following:
HP3000, Macola, Jobscope, MS SQL in the states of: OH, TN, GA, NC, SC, FL. 
   
  Titles of:
Senior P/A, S/A
MS SQL Admin.
IT Director, Manager, project leader

OR >>>> HP3000 Contract/Consulting anywhere in US. 

Can you help me out?

419-651-6704   or [log in to unmask] 


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