I used to work with a consulting firm in the midwest, with a significant side business of training, Sun, BMC, HPUX, Oracle, you name it. I'm not sure of the details, but I know all the Linux training materials were Guru Labs. I never took any of the courses, but the feedback was always positive.
-Michael ----- Original Message ---- From: Corey Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 9, 2007 10:10:05 AM Subject: Re: General Linux Training On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 21:25 -0700, Brandon Stout wrote: > Derek Carter wrote: > > Ryan Byrd wrote: > >>> Now, stop wondering about other training alternatives and pony up for a > >> 1-week course with Guru Labs at > >> their facility. > >> > >> and at *only* $60,000.00 ($2000.00 a head x 30 people). What a steal! > > I don't think any training is worth that much. If you add the cost for > 4 years to get my BS degree, plus 2 more for my MS degree, I don't think > it comes to $60,000. Perhaps, if you want to spend that much on > training, you should just pay for everyone to get a degree... Seriously > though, a degree for 30 people would obviously run much higher than > $60,000. My real point is that you should get much more than a course > or two of training for $2,000 per head. I bet some PLUG members would > happily train for much less. From one non-profit agency to another. > Does government subsidized count as non-profit? My company had Guru Labs, Stuart actually, teach 4 of us everything there is to know about LDAP. It was a 3 day course he taught on site in lovely Idaho Falls. We negotiated a deal that was favorable to both of us and we came out of it with a very firm understanding of LDAP. I'll stop there before I turn into a fan boy. Suffice it to say, satisfied customer. Now, to the $60k price tag. Let's consider that even for a beginning elementary school teacher, the district will be shelling out at least $50k a year between salary, benefits, overhead, etc. I'm certain it's more, but let's use that as a safe estimate. 30 people means $1.5 million a year. $60k is only 4% of that. To me, that sounds like a not too unrealistic cost for training. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
