Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:15:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On-line Help Message-ID: <199810040315.XAA29099@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <19981004101438.39085@welearn.com.au> from "Sue Blake" at Oct 4, 98 10:14:38 am
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> Our support efforts are good and improving, and HOWTOs will help a lot > there, but training is another story. I'd like to see the same planning > and effort put into more tutorials. But people expect HOWTOs and they're > easier to write. Eventually we'll need both, so we might as well start > with the HOWTOs. > > > Training is now seen as the major business cost associated with change, > more important than the cost of software. Meanwhile home users run > around looking for a foothold. We haven't even begun to take a serious > look at the training needs. Twelve months from now its significance will > suddenly become more apparent, when we have more to offer the office > users. Whether it's all volunteer effort or I do something myself and > make a quick buck doesn't matter too much. Sew up the training angle in > any form and we'll make both NT and Linux look like intolerably > expensive alternatives. > > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- Since I used to do training courses for a formerly fairly large Unix vendor... Does anyone think there's enough demand for Free/Net/OpenBSD/Linux sysadmin training... Would ISP's and corporations shell out money for this. (I see a nice niche business, if they will -- but I don't think the demand's there yet... or Learning Tree and Taos Mountain would be doing it...) Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill and/or Carolyn Pechter | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | | Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in | | a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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