The company I worked for also spent big US$ on Cisco products:
The only training they allowed for Gold Partners were 2 days hands-on that
it happened every 3 or 4 months.
Knowledge is the real power and they don't give that for free. That's why I
think I will have to manage to pay training by myself...
""Stanfield Hilman B(Brad) CONT NNSY"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> Ditto!
>
> My site just spent 3.5 MILLION dollars on switches and 3 years prior spent
> 6.2 MILLION on Top of the Line routers. Cisco will give you all kinds of
> neat toys, (Hats, Shirts, mugs etc.) BUT no training. Both times, our
> purchase was part of a group order that totaled 15 mil, and 24 mil,
> respectively. Cisco moved away from the training provider business years
> back. They will highly recommend any of their training partners though.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Hubbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 9:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: OT: Does Cisco give away training for big $ purchases?
>
>
> Mark,
>
> About 9 months ago, I bought $400K worth of Catalyst switches for a
project.
>
> The people I was working for were one of Cisco's OLDEST and most
faithful
> customers.....I tried negociating with my Cisco Rep for a class for each
> member of my team, but because they entrust their customer technical
> training to the likes of Globalknowledge, CCTI and CCCI, he couldn't hook
me
>
> up. Cisco does provide internal training classes, but because of the fact
> that much of the material used in them is company proprietary, they are
> usually paraniod about letting outsiders attend.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lance
>
> >From: "Mark Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Mark Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: OT: Does Cisco give away training for big $ purchases?
> >Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:51:48 -0500
> >
> >Has anyone here experienced Cisco giving away free training vouchers to
> >corporations who purchase large amounts of Cisco product? For example,
at
> >the company I work for I'm in the process of migrating from 3Com LAN/WAN
> >equipment to Cisco. We spent approximately $600,000 on Cisco gear. 3
> >years ago when we purchased the 3Com equipment they supplied us with
> >"training vouchers" for certified 3Com courses. Has anyone had this
happen
>
> >with Cisco? If so, could you please list the name of your company (if
you
> >wouldn't mind).. My local Cisco rep. will provide me with some training
if
> >I can let him know who Cisco has done this for in the past.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Mark
> >
>
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