Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Career Advise - Database Management Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:39:49 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1126755534.274708@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1126638273.916921.245530@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126695211.482075.7070@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1126711827.545598@yasure> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 21 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:251565 Mark C. Stock wrote: > corporate instructor lead training goes for from $420 up to $550 or more per > seat per day these days -- so at the low-end, $6k would covers about 14 days > at 'standard' rates -- some 'boot camp' courses are listed for $9,495 for 14 > days, including meals and accomodations On the basis that no one is going to apply for a Visa and move to the US because I post this I will speak from experience. University of Washington Oracle program: 9 months: Less than $2,000. Puget Sound Oracle Users Group: all day hands-on classes with each student getting their own server: ~$450/day. $6,000 for an OCP course is outrageous. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)