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May 8, 2008 12:33 PM PDT

Teaching MCSE dogs new (Linux) tricks

by Matt Asay
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Paul Murphy at ZDNet has a great post on why many MCSEs (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) struggle to gain proficiency with Linux. In part it may stem from apathy, but Paul (following a long post from a would-be Linux adoptee) identifies something more fundamental:

A divide between theory and practice.

As Paul writes:

...[T]here's a great divide between the Windows and Unix camps: a divide one side doesn't recognize and the other doesn't want to cross. It's the divide between training and education: the difference between rote learning and the application of theory to practice.

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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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