W dniu 2013-09-10 19:53, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze:
Steve Comstock wrote:
After 38 years of creating and delivering training courses for IBM mainframe
(OS/360 through z/OS) application programmers, The Trainer's Friend, Inc. is
going out of business.
You're not alone. When I started in 1980/1990, there were many training vendors
and IBM's classes were FULL-FULL-FULL! Waiting list, prepaid to register, etc,
you get the picture, just to get a seat for training. Competition was
cut-throat fierce!
Now these days, the training vendors only give training if ENOUGH students, at
all and if any, applied. This seldom happens that a training session realize. I
think there are only IBM and one (or three?) training vendors left in
Johannesburg area.
Oh, that one training vendor (remaining nameless) has embarked on training on
other platforms and other IT topics just to survive.
The list of available courses are dwindling, at least here in Sunny South
Africa.
Above is true for z/OS. I'm not sure about other platforms training.
Ouch, Steve, I feel your pain. Good luck for you, your team and your family.
This is self-winding.
Whenever I got the budget to send my people for some course it appears
the course will not be performed. Even 3 persons (attendees) is not
enough, sometimes they want at least 6 attendees. Unfortunately they
don't manage waiting list properly - I had situations where my folks
plus other company's folks would fill the quorum, but nobody took care
to manage it.
From the other hand I was asked about some courses, won the RFP, and
provided several courses to 2 persons. Yes, two. It was cost effective
for the purchaser and profitable for me. Of course I don't have ton of
bureaucrats to feed. ;-)
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
--
Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku
przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być jedynie
jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. Jeżeli nie jesteś adresatem
niniejszej wiadomości lub pracownikiem upoważnionym do jej przekazania
adresatowi, informujemy, że jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie
lub inne działanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i może być
karalne. Jeżeli otrzymałeś tę wiadomość omyłkowo, prosimy niezwłocznie
zawiadomić nadawcę wysyłając odpowiedź oraz trwale usunąć tę wiadomość
włączając w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku.
This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive.
BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax
+48 (22) 829 00 33, www.brebank.pl, e-mail: [email protected]
Sąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sądowego, nr rejestru przedsiębiorców KRS 0000025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88.
Według stanu na dzień 01.01.2013 r. kapitał zakładowy BRE Banku SA (w całości wpłacony) wynosi 168.555.904 złotych.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
