Re: Training Courses -- MIDRANGE-L

I've been on the satellite training for a full year. It's been great! Taken
9-10 courses (about $20,000 worth for less than a 1 week course in
Rochester. Many courses are week long compressed into 10-15 hrs. They take
out the breaks, dead time in a real class, etc. There are 10 channels
broadcast simultaneously. You get a license for how many can be viewed at a
time. I just have the one at my house. The only thing you pay for is class
materials ( I never get them, but it's a money thing.)They were fairly
disorganized in the beginning. Not all the promised classes ever made it to
the schedule (even now). BUT, the schedule is great!. There are 4 or more
different WebSphere courses, Net.Commerce, multitude of Java & obj oriented.
E-commerce courses that are very insightful. AS400 Operations, Security,
Performance, TCP, Firewall (yes-they still do the discontinued Firewall
course-still good info) and more. Also Net.Data, DB2, MQ Series, SQL. Also
NT Admin courses, Linux, many AIX & S390. Also good basic communications
courses, TCP, SNA, networking etc. And more courses added. Several new
400-related courses listed as coming very soon. At one time there was a
promise of Lotus courses-but nothing yet. What I have not seen (yet) is RPG
at any level. There is an ILE Fundamentals course. To see the schedule, I
like the www.etnetworks.com site (on 1st screen, choose "class participant"
and the schedule in Excel format. You certainly lose "something" by not
being in an interactive live class, and I can see that raw beginners need
more help, but for increasing your current skills, this is GREAT!!!
Worth looking at. Jim Franz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <dr2@cssas400.com>
To: "Charly Jones" <charly301@hotmail.com>
Cc: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Training Courses


>
>
> Charly,
>
> I'm going to give this a SERIOUS evil eye next month at Common...I know
> they did a short presentation for the LUG luncheon in San Diego and it
> looked really good, but I've just not had the time to persue it further...
>
> Don in DC
>
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Charly Jones wrote:
>
> > IBM has a broadcast approach using satellites.  For a fixed fee
> > per year, they provide the satellite dish and around the clock
> > courseware.  I haven't done it yet, but I am tempted.  Seems like
> > it was US$ 1200 for one person for one year.
> >
> > check out: www.etnetworks.com
> >
> > Charly
> > Geezer in Gig Harbor
> > 500 > 400
> >
> >
> > >From: "Buzz Fenner" <bfenner@jonesborocwl.org>
> > >Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > >To: "Midrange Discussion" <Midrange-L@midrange.com>
> > >Subject: Training Courses
> > >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:36:36 -0500
> > >
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >We're a small shop which has decided to recruit (from within the
company) a
> > >person who has been a nighttime operator with the intent of turning him
> > >into
> > >a junior programmer.  At the same time, two of us with 15 years
experience
> > >(each) are looking to learn SQL & ILE RPG.  My IS director is
researching
> > >options for training.  We've only looked at different ATS course
options.
> > >In fact, our business partner has recommended ATS for on-site training.
I
> > >would like any advice on other vendor products, both positive &
negative.
> > >
> > >TIA
> > >
> > >Buzz Fenner
> > >mailto:bfenner@jonesborocwl.org
> > >
> > >"Consider the dafodill.  While you are doing that, I'll be over here
> > >looking
> > >through your stuff."
> > >
> > >
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