Adam10541 wrote:
I completely agree that the vendor neutral training is both effective and essential, but sadly very expensive and with so many people offering training it becomes difficult to make sure you are getting relevant training from an experienced and knowledgeable person.
I've attended a few training courses (and even some university units) where the man at the front of the room knew very little about what he was trying to teach, but he was exceptionally good at writing up his CV and espousing his credentials <img src="images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" alt="Razz" title="Razz" />
I have developed very good relationships with all my vendors to the point that I find they are a good resource to find vendor neutral trainers, typically some of those trainers are former vendor employees <img src="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Very Happy" title="Very Happy" />
My experience with vendor based training has been that the trainers are very knowledgeable about the subject itself and are not just 'expert tool users'. The good ones will take you through the underlying principals and talk about exactly what the tool is doing and how it parses the information.
The really good ones will show you how to do the same thing (where possible) with some open source software, mostly just to show you how much time their tool can save you, but it also has a good grounding effect to ensure the information sticks.
That is a fair assessment adam and not one I disagree as it again underpins the opinion that more than one tools is needed, which should further assist the OP's original question that there is no one tool solution.
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