Re: The State of the CCIE Training Industry

I guess the we got left out of this one by mistake:

http://blog.ine.com/2009/07/08/scott-anthony-front-row-at-john-chamberss-keyn
ote/

 Scott & Anthony Front Row At John Chamberss Keynote!
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By
Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593

Unfortunately I wasnt able to attend this years Cisco Live 2009 in San
Francisco, and from the looks of the picture below it seems that I really
missed out. Our own Scott Morris and Anthony Sequeira got front row seats
to John Chamberss keynote address! Hey Scott, whats with the shorts? Was
it casual Friday? ;) For those of you that I missed this year I hope to see
you next year for Cisco Live 2010!

Anyone else ever hear of oil and water? Do they really mix well?

Hey not that I care beyond my personal investment and no I do not see the
company folding.

However a prominent person of some esteem and inside knowledge brought this
earth-shattering event to my attention while at Cisco Live and I've been
pondering it ever since.

Now watching the economy fall hard and the effect it is having on the
industry is really heart-breaking for me but I'm not sure why anyone would
say this without cause.

Well anyone else wonder what's going on with IE 2.0 program and the expected
updates? I had not thought about it much either till the aforementioned
bird brought it up. And I thought there was a point there. Maybe I'm the
only one.

FYI:

http://blog.ine.com/2009/06/30/ccie-rs-techtorial-at-networkers-2009/

I read this write-up and then I read the PDF and I'd guess some things that
struck me as importment to would-be candidates did not register with Scott
here. Hey I did not attend the session. I did attend the hands-on session
and I read the pdf of this session after the fact. And a clear message was
sent - maybe it was encoded a bit, but it was tangible.

Hind-sight is 20/20 I guess. Anyway, I think that session at least as far
as the pdf goes was quite.... what's the word.... informative and perhaps
the most valuable piece of information an "informed ccie candidate" could
ask for if he or she might take a CCIE lab in this year of 2009.

I dunno, maybe the guy who delivered the session I went to told too much,
but I can tell you the pdf I collected for that session made a lot of sense
to me when I added the two sessions up. Pity I did not pay to attend that
one too. Some insight is very much "priceless".

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Received on Sat Jul 11 2009 - 09:20:59 ART