Open Stack

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 8:58 AM Jay Bryant <jungleboyj at gmail.com wrote:

> Alexandros,
>
> I got this question from someone else the other day and reached out to the
> Foundation for answers.
>
> The response I got was that they had been providing this to support the
> community in the past but no longer felt it was necessary as other
> companies in the community had started their own offerings.  So, they were
> choosing to remove their COA exam given that there were now good
> alternatives available.
>
That's sad. I really appreciated having a non-vendory, ubiased,
community-driven option. If a vendor folds or moves on from Openstack, your
certification becomes worthless. Presumably, so long as there is Openstack,
there will be the foundation at its core. I hope they might reconsider.

-Erik

> Hope this information helps.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay
>
> (jungleboyj)
> On 1/25/2019 2:19 AM, Alexandros Soumplis wrote:
>
> That's an interesting question if anyone could elaborate
>
>
> On 21/01/2019 14:24, Eduardo Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Reading the info in the COA site [0] says the following* "The OpenStack
> Foundation is winding down the administration of the COA exam".*
>
> Is there any reason for retiring the exam? I've tried to find a notice in
> the mailing list but not found anything at all.
>
> [0] https://www.openstack.org/coa/
>
> Regards
>
> --
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/attachments/20190125/9cfd8f2f/attachment.html>