RE: OT: Does Cisco give away training for big $ purchases?

[Stanfield Hilman B(Brad) CONT NNSY]

Ditto!

My site just spent 3.5 MILLION dollars on switches and 3 years prior spent
6.2 MILLION on Top of the Line routers. Cisco will give you all kinds of
neat toys, (Hats, Shirts, mugs etc.) BUT no training. Both times, our
purchase was part of a group order that totaled 15 mil, and 24 mil,
respectively. Cisco moved away from the training provider business years
back. They will highly recommend any of their training partners though.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Hubbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 9:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OT: Does Cisco give away training for big $ purchases?


Mark,

About 9 months ago, I bought $400K worth of Catalyst switches for a project.

  The people I was working for were one of Cisco's OLDEST and most faithful 
customers.....I tried negociating with my Cisco Rep for a class for each 
member of my team, but because they entrust their customer technical 
training to the likes of Globalknowledge, CCTI and CCCI, he couldn't hook me

up.  Cisco does provide internal training classes, but because of the fact 
that much of the material used in them is company proprietary, they are 
usually paraniod about letting outsiders attend.

Cheers,

Lance

>From: "Mark Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Mark Holloway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: OT: Does Cisco give away training for big $ purchases?
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:51:48 -0500
>
>Has anyone here experienced Cisco giving away free training vouchers to 
>corporations who purchase large amounts of Cisco product?  For example, at 
>the company I work for I'm in the process of migrating from 3Com LAN/WAN 
>equipment to Cisco.  We spent approximately $600,000 on Cisco gear.  3 
>years ago when we purchased the 3Com equipment they supplied us with 
>"training vouchers" for certified 3Com courses.  Has anyone had this happen

>with Cisco?  If so, could you please list the name of your company (if you 
>wouldn't mind).. My local Cisco rep. will provide me with some training if 
>I can let him know who Cisco has done this for in the past.
>
>Regards,
>Mark
>

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