Re: The State of the CCIE Training Industry

Electronic delivery methods are awesome - perosnally I love them.

If I were in the business I'd rather sell more than "1 copy" of my work.
Sure more are sold but how much revenue is lost?

What's worse are CCIE classes may be 1/2 filled and if so what about the
other half? When our valued trainers leave the field, what happens next?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Dark Fiber <darkfiber08_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I 100% agree with you on the issue of piracy and these idiots that steal
> and trade them all over the place. That is an issue and needs to be
> addressed, but how?
>
> I was at both R&S sessions and I agree pretty much 100% on what Scott had
> to say on the session...
>
> If I don't pass my lab in the beginning of September I will be looking at
> all my training options once more, even the 360 4.0 program :/...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darby Weaver" <ccie.weaver_at_gmail.com>
> To: "Dark Fiber" <darkfiber08_at_gmail.com>
> Cc: "Cisco certification" <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:20:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: 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!
>
> 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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