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

matty91 at bellsouth.net matty91 at bellsouth.net
Sat Sep 27 08:05:57 EDT 2003


On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Crawford Rainwater wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:12, Matty wrote:
> >   10. Re: ANN: Linux Training Class, Atlanta, GA, 13-15 Oct. (Matty)
>
> > Message: 10
> > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:55:50 -0400
> > From: Matty <matty91 at bellsouth.net>
> > Subject: Re: [ale] ANN: Linux Training Class, Atlanta, GA, 13-15 Oct.
>
> > 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.
>
> Humor aside...
>
> Average costs (non-specific to Atlanta):
> - Room with computers and "snacks": ~$1000/day
> - Instructor: ~$750/day + expenses
> - Training material: ~$250/student (books, pens, CDs, etc.)
>
> Typically most metropolitan areas will be higher on the class room
> rental per day as well, compared to an "on site" training job at a
> company since an "on site" group can incur the costs internally be
> providing the training facility (IBM for example here).
>
> And that is shopping around for "the best deals" with the quality too,
> not the "computer class in the garage special" as someone referenced to
> earlier.
>
> I admit though, SANS classes are more expensive when it comes to IT

I prob should have typed Storage Area Networks. The SANS security classes
look pretty cool :)

> training, but then again, if you look at the better security training
> out there, they all cost roughly the same with instructors getting paid
> $1k+ easily per day plus expenses, if not typically more.  And the
> results are quality security staff (if they did not get overloaded with
> the course itself of course ;-)).
>
> FWIW.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Crawford Rainwater
> CEO and President
> Linux+, LCP, LPIC-1, RHCT
>
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> the ALE group.
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