2009/6/7 Luke L <lukehasnon...@gmail.com>: > I've always thought the price of "official" training courses on > technical skills for certifications was outrageous. However, > Canonical's server training requires no hotel reservations. No travel > on their end, either.
On a typical course you have: - say 4 or 5 trainees, makes total turnover for this course around 9k - 11k - a 40 hours training, that's 5 days, paying a teacher, say at a fee of 600-800 a day, costs 3k-4k - having a full classroom equiped with hardware, not sure what this costs? somewhere between 1k and 2k? - 4-5 trainees + teacher getting free food and drinks, say 100$ - if company is paying for hotel costs for the teacher: add 500$t to 1k so far total income between 1.900$ and 5.900$ Add to this costs of marketing, sales, administration and business risk. You might end up for a net profit of 0$ to a couple of thousands. Add to this that nowadays having 4 to 5 people in a class is a good score. Often trainings come through for 3 people, sometimes making some loss on it. As other stated, these rates a standard industry rate, and I think it's obvious this are not overrated. I'm not sure how prices in dollar and in Euros kan compare. If these numbers were in Euro, I'll agree they are a bit high. For comparison, I have myself been teaching a Linux training course [1] (which is often given on Ubuntu pc's, sometimes mixed with redhat virtual machines). One example here, typically with 4 students, paying 1650 Euro for a 4 days course. I got a decent rate payed and hotel costs payed by the company. Serge van Ginderachter [1] not so shaless plugg as it's freely available: free pdf for Linux Training course on http://linux-training.be/ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam