Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2006-01-14 13:12:34 - Graham Ellis
Just occasionally, it's work going back to basic - who we are and what we do. Lisa wrote a great introduction this morning when filling in a form. With her permission, I'm sharing it with you:
"Well House Consultants has been training OpenSource computer programming for the past 10 years. All material is written and presented by Well House Consultants staff.
Subjects include: Perl, PHP, MySQL, Python, Tcl, Linux, C/C++, Ruby, Apache httpd and Tomcat. New topics are always under consideration.
Public courses are limited to 7 delegates. Private courses (for up to 15) can be held at your offices, or own dedicated centre in Wiltshire.
Manuals are comprised of regularly revised, individual modules to ensure that the training provided accurately covers just the subjects that are relevant to your needs. We are happy to develop additional modules that pertain to your specific use."
Excellent work, Lisa. We discussed whether price should be mentioned in such a short introduction, and decided against. Although we're 20 to 30 % lower that other companies who train, we're very open about our prices on the web site and people will very quickly find that out. Having a product that meets a customer requirement is discussed first, and only then is price looked at.
Lisa was also wondering whether to add that the courses are all taught by someone who's actually met / learned with the originators and luminaries of the languages we teach. Close call that one - it does make a huge difference, but I'm not sure that it's something to put in just an attention grabbing few paragraphs.
If you've come across this page while doing a web search, you'll find links to the subjects we teach, our diary, and far more details all on our home page.