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15 Responses to “Linux Training as from January 2009”

1. Asvin Balloo says:
   January 8th, 2009 at 10:29

   Cool, I’ll have a look at the courses and let you know

   BTW, seems like a very young Asvin in the picture, LOL!

2. selven says:
   January 8th, 2009 at 11:51

   great time to start!

3. avinash says:
   January 8th, 2009 at 13:52

   To Asvin:

   We well all younger then. And I don’t know if you know but the girl on the right, Divesha, passed away a few months later. She was very ill at that time but no one at MCCI knew… I believe that photo was taken around 2001 or 2002.

4. nasrullah says:
   January 11th, 2009 at 21:31

   Thank you for the good initiative…good luck Avinash

5. Emmerdeur says:
   January 12th, 2009 at 00:27

   Don’t you think that for the Level 1 Linux the price is a little bit high? Above that one off payment. You should think about giving some payment facilities to probable ‘clients’.
   As far as the MQA is concerned, I don’t think so why you need their rubber stamp as far as the examinations are carried out by an exterior body.

6. avinash says:
   January 12th, 2009 at 09:48

   (i) The price for Linux Level 1 is Rs. 15,000 and is in line with the prices for similar courses in other training institutions.

   (ii) Knowledge Seven Ltd is not a bank and therefore does not give payment facilities More seriously, I am targeting IT professionals already working and I believe a company will not have any problem paying Rs. 15,000 upfront. The problem with delayed payment is that cashflow suffers and this can be extremely detrimental for a small company just starting. This is not a risk I’m willing to take.

   (iii) As a matter of fact, it is extremely important to be MQA approved as a number of companies get rebates from the HRDC when their employees follow MQA-approved courses. It is as if the Government of Mauritius is subsidizing a substantial part of the cost. I have submitted both courses for approval and I believe that everything will be OK by next week i.e. before the courses start. Incidentally, there won’t be any “examination” at the end of the course. Instead, trainees will be encouraged to sit for the LPIC-1 or Comptia Linux+ exams in any VUE or Prometric center (e.g. the University of Mauritius) on a voluntary basis and at their own cost. In the long run, Knowledge Seven Ltd may become an examination center but there are a lot of cost implications that I need to study first.

7. selven says:
   January 12th, 2009 at 21:19

   I believe Rs.15k is too cheap for the value that in return people will gain… pffft people don’t realize the value of things… after all i believe its collections of years of stuffs, 15k sounds more than ok!

8. Emmerdeur says:
   January 18th, 2009 at 20:14

   why would someone want to learn Linux?

9. avinash says:
   January 19th, 2009 at 17:40

   Ask Google or Amazon

10. Prashant says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 19:02

    Hi Avinash,
    Is it possible to have a look at the syllabus.

    Thanks
    Prashant

11. avinash says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 19:45

    Hi Prashant,

    You have everything (including the detailed syllabus and pricing information) on our website: http://www.knowledge7.com. Feel free to contact me for more info.

12. Prashant says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 20:59

    Thanks.
    And where in Mauritius, is Linux driving enterprises, or is in part of their IT insfractructure??

    Regards,
    Prashant

13. avinash says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 08:35

    Interesting question.

    I’ve observed that Linux is used by a lot of Mauritian companies because of Oracle. So it would seem that Linux is “only” part of the overall IT infrastructure. But I have also noticed that lately some companies (including Knowledge Seven Ltd) are using Linux strategically e.g. as a means to offer high-tech services based on open standards and without having to pay for license fees.

14. Shakil says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 11:15

    pls advise me course start dates as I need some planning beforehand and pls send the information on my mail, thank you.

15. avinash says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 06:25

    I’ll do that Shakil. As soon as I finalise the dates for the next Linux training (at the beginning of 2010), I’ll let you know.

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