Our business is small enough for us to look at any changes in the patterns of customer booking and ask ourselves whether something we've noticed is a trend ... or simply caused by the asyncronous booking events happening to come in a burst or a drought.
I think I have spotted a trend in the last 3 to 6 months. A growth in
on site (private course) training requirements that's not been matched by anything like the same grown in bookings on
public courses, even though we've had several of those full and people waitlisted - something we try to avoid.
Why the trend? Perhaps because Open Source is becoming more accepted and more mainstream in some larger organisations. Rather than one or two people working on some web site or research project with the languages we teach, we're seeing whole teams being trained and once the customer needs 4 or more people to learn the same thing at the same time, a private course makes economic sense.
(written 2005-02-14, updated 2006-06-05)
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