I must say that I haven't been to an MS seminar in the last couple of years
that topped 10% content - and I still lost a day's work (they even do sales
pitches at the "no marketing" ones).
OTOH the last Borland thing that I went to gave me enough info to avoid a
significant amount of reading and experimenting for a new area I had done no
work in then (and that was before Richard promised to be nice to everyone).
Hmmm that's 9 extra days lost income vs what that last seminar cost...
(To the Borland Marketing Dept: I'll have the free Shirt in large thanks).
Seriously - if the seminar is the right topic, and the right level, you can
always phone and ask, than imho it's excellent value for money. They're also
small enough to be interactive so, the only risk is having to feel brave
enough, you can make sure you get your questions answered.
Max
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Behalf Of Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
Sent: Friday, 16 June 2000 13:29
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Delphi and XML
> Both companies provide tools to develop software. Borland's are better
and
> they set the price accordingly. The seminars offer a chance for the
company
> to demo the product, and show how easy it is to use. Assuming you own the
> product being demo'd, I would contend that the value to you of taking a
day
> off work and attending either seminar is comparable, and therefore that
the
> Borland seminars are hardly worth over 5 times the price.
I must say that the Java seminar I attended in Auckland, whilst having
reasonable
quality of material and presentation was light on content... I was listed as
being
aimed at getting 'intermediate' delphi programmers into the starting blocks
of
java but I feel that a Delphi programmer of an intermediate level should
have been
able to tolerate a higher rate of information being presented.
If Borland were offering another Java course I would be wanting some
evidence
up-front that the content would be higher before paying such figures.
I must add as an afterthought that the term 'intermediate Delphi' was used I
feel
to also imply 'beginner/intermediate OOP'... Java enforces an appreciation
for OOP
that people should already be using in Delphi if they want to maximise it's
capabilities...
NB. Mildly hipocritical here in that I haven't had opportunity to apply
interfaces
in our existing developments as their design predated D4 - and we didn't
want to
mix our drinks... ;)
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Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
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