5 Feb 2003 dyork   » (Master)

The carnage begins - So last night I began to make use of the results of The Great LinTraining Cleanout. Dropped the list of training centers from 701 down to 594... and I'm only maybe a quarter of the way through the list of centers we identified that night. It's very interesting to see whose gone. Whole countries disappeared, for instance, like Greece. There are no more listed Linux training centers there. The three that were listed all had either dead hostnames (2) or had no mention of Linux anywhere on their site.

The death of pioneers - It was with a touch of melancholy that I noted that two of the pioneers in the Linux training space back in 1999 - Linuxcare (my former employer) and Wave Technology both no longer even mention Linux training on their sites. I'd known about Linuxcare for a while, actually, ever since they let Jim Lacey go and he went off to launch his very successful Bradford Learning company. And I'd known that Wave was out of the business ever since some of the reorganizations within Thomson had forced Wave to sell off the SAIR Certification program they had acquired. Still, at one point Wave had been offering materials for SAIR, LPI, and Red Hat certification.

Still, I mentally marked the moment when I hit the old "Delete" link on those two. They were pioneers who helped push Linux training out to so many other centers.

Freezing Rain - So it's February 4th and it is raining in Ottawa! Which of course means that all of our nice snow is now covered with a strong glaze of ice. And all the beautiful ice sculptures of Winterlude once again wither under the watery assault. Freezing rain is just miserable... no other way to put it.

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