On June 1st, Max Spevack, Fedora Project Leader, sent a message to the fedora-announce-list entitled “Discounts on Red Hat training for Fedora folks”.
You can read the message for yourself, but Red Hat is offering discounts (in some cases, up to 25%) off of Red Hat Training for users of and contributors to the Fedora Project. This was good news to me, since I’ve recently been thinking about taking the RH300: RHCE Rapid Track Course, which normally goes for $2,798 (including the RHCE exam).
As an employee at a .edu, I’m eligible for a 12% discount from Red Hat already. I was hoping I could get the 20% stacked on top of the 12%, but Max Spevack let me know that wasn’t gonna happen. =) With the 20% discount, the cost would be right around $2,238. The RH300: RHCE Rapid Track Course is being held in Indianapolis starting October 1st — that’s close enough for me to drive back and forth everyday, avoiding additional costs for airfare, hotel accomodations, etc. I haven’t asked yet, but I’m really hoping I could get $work to spring for this.
We actually run way more stuff on Microsoft Windows than we do Red Hat Enterprise Linux and I know that $boss would be much happier if I were to get some more Microsoft certifications. I’m already a Microsoft Certified Professional, but my reasoning is that if I knock out the rest of the exams for the MCSA by myself, I’m much more likely to get $work to pay for the RH300. I’m not sure if that’s logical reasoning or not, but it seems like it might be a “reward” for me or something (I’d much rather have the RHCE than the MCSA/MCSE).
We shall see… =)
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