[ale] ANN: Linux Training Class, Atlanta, GA, 13-15 Oct.

[Matty]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:02, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2003 15:45, Dylan Northrup wrote:
> 
> > I was pointing out that $1000 is a lot of money for an Intro course.
> 
> Could you be any more subtle? $1000 is absurd for a 3 day course with an 
> instructor that, most likely, nobody has ever heard of.

hehehe .... you should tell my SAN vendor this ;) My employer paid $5000
for one week worth of SAN training (Fibre Channel details, switch
specifics, etc. etc.). I am curious why classes are so expensive. Rooms,
teachers, equipment and coffee can't cost that much.


>  Perhaps Crawford 
> would like to share the identity and credentials of the individual in 
> question. If this is Joe Average, with a couple of Linux boxes at his 
> house, an intro course as this has been described calls for $150-300 per 
> person at best. I've given security basics and intro to cryptography 
> courses for as little as $50 per person (hell, I've done it for free), 
> and while I'm not a Bob Toxen, people have actually heard of me. So, who 
> is the instructor Crawford?