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On 15-Jun-2001 at 11:42:39 MATTHEW BROWNING wrote: > Not doing any work today... > Is anyone working this afternoon??? :-) > Re: courses and ILAs etc., a couple of months ago I was engaged in > an email conversation with LinuxIT in Bristol (closest company that > runs Red Hat Certified Engineer course) Summary: > [snipped] > > -at which point their sales chap lost interest in me - thought I'd > mention it anyway. Useful course? Has to be better that MCSE. > No idea if you could pay for it with an ILA - possibly as it is > career development(?) Can we get a lab (at either Uni) and nineteen > other interested candidates? > We (computing service) have had companies in to do 'in-house' training, and likewise we had to provide the lab (basically tables and powerpoints). They provided the actual equipment. These were MS courses and (still) cost a fair bit. Years ago I did a Sun solaris (2.4!) in-house course which likewise cost a fortune and was a hassle to arrange (for my manager) despite it being what people within the Uni wanted! But then linux folk aren't like that... Within the Uni you may want to start with the School of Computing since they already have a lab of linux (mandrake I think) boxes. Failing that I'm sure there may well be enough technicians, etc within the Uni departments to get equipment together, a lab itself, who knows maybe even money? For myself I may well be interested in some such course. There have been enough people around here doing their MCSE's (?) or whatever *AND* having it paid by the Uni (note that Matthew! :-) ) I've not bothered with Sun/linux courses simply due to cost - I asked about a Sun course ($2000) and was told that it was too expensive. So I guess I may well have to pay for a linux one as well. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.