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jazzyjeph wrote:
Hi
Just a quickie but if the Boss will not invest in training you may be
better off looking for employment elsewhere, ventures like this
with no
training involved could end up leaving everybody feeling bad and they
will hold you responsible (being the Ubuntu person)
Because we are talking business and profitability the community may
be
less willing to donate free time to it, so you might need to buy in
experience to make up for the lack of training you received.
So much better if the boss invests in his company and reaps the
rewards
from the increased sales and profitability that using Ubuntu could
bring.
Regards
Geoff
Tim Dobson wrote:
Anyone got any thoughts on this?
Cheers
Tim
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Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Business with Ubuntu
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:04:19 +0100
From: James Milligan <address@hidden>
Reply-To: British Ubuntu Talk <address@hidden>
To: British Ubuntu Talk <address@hidden>
Let me just say that I couldn't think of a better title for this, so
please improve it if you can!
The shop I work in sells desktop computers that are built to order
each time, meaning the OS too. We also sell laptops by ASUS but
that's
not really relevant at the moment. Our main thing, though, is
repairing computers in general.
The boss has told me that he's got 2 Ubuntu desktops to be built,
and
he wants me to do them. He said this because I'm pretty much the
only
person in the company that's knows about Ubuntu enough to install it
and set it up.
I feel that the time is right to suggest moving to Ubuntu as a
mainstream option when people are choosing what OS to have. The only
issues I can see, and what he will see, are the following:
- profitability - how much do you 'charge' for Ubuntu to make it
worthwhile? Also, because of the nature of Windows PCs, we get a lot
of return sales because of the repairs etc. I know Ubuntu computers
break, but not as often or as badly as Windows ones do.
- training - I'm sure he doesn't want to cough up for the official
Canonical training, yet I can't go around teaching the guys who know
more about Windows than I will probably ever do about it. Is there
any
training (preferably close to Manchester, but Cheshire would be
better).
I hope someone can think of 'solutions' for this - I know that
he'd go
for Ubuntu if he could, it's just that there isn't as much profit in
it. Thanks for any help!
James Milligan
With regard to training you need to identify training needs for your
own
personal / professional development. There is funding around to help
with this, esp if your udner 25,
saying that,
1. identify what you need to learn
2. use the net to seek out where the courses are, either online or at
college, perhaps Open university,
3. see what financial support is available
4. see if you can do free courses in the meantime,
if you arrange and do courses off your own back in your own time you
call the shots when it comes to jobs in a way, if I as an employer
invest in YOU I expect YOU to stay with the company so I can reap the
benefits of training you. If I invest nothing in you, and you learn in
your spare time, then you can go where you want because its your money
and your own investment,
may not always work that way but I am doing this right now, i am
fed up
of can't get a job due to lack of qualification a or experience, when
how do you get both, by working but I can't work to get the
experience
to get the training, its a vicious circle, only YOU can get out of.
Don't canonical do some training through their website,I saw one
course
costng about 50 quid, probably just desktop but I am sure I have seen
other courses.
may be worth looking in to, contact local user groups get a list of
people together and then see if a course can be done locally. but
approach as a group so the demand is there. A lot of places are so
windows orientated they are blind to the potential income from other
courses let alone blind to the needs of the real world.
worth a shot.
Paul
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