Re: IEWB R/S Vol IV (troubleshooting)

Caue / Anthony -

      Guys - I think INE has gotten beaten up on this enough - it
probably makes sense to contact them DIRECTLY if you agree or disagree
with the way they decided to handle their new content relating to a
blueprint change.

      To be totally honest, updating materials when a blueprint
changes is extremely difficult and brutal to training providers.
Someone, recently, used the analogy of Microsoft - well, they
(Microsoft) don't give "free updates" to a major OS upgrade - they
just give access to minor enhancents (patches) to the current version
(granted - that's probably also how they sell it! ;-).

      One thing everyone here needs to realize is that training
companies, like IPX, INE and NLI are here to help students - but in
order to do so - dollars have to be collected so top talent can be
retained. If someone has a problem spending a few hundred dollars
because of a major blueprint change - they obviously don't understand
the value of the CCIE and the value of the instructors / developers
who are attempting to teach these new (and extremely complex)
technologies.

Regards,

Wayne A. Lawson II - CCIE #5244
Founder, President & CEO:
- IPexpert, Inc.
- Proctor Labs, Inc.
- Platinum Solutions Group, LLC.
Mailto: wlawson_at_ipexpert.com
Mobile: +1.810.334.1564

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On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Caue Wailemann <cwailemann_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Two different points of view in my opinion:
>
> - Vendor says it4s a new product, and offers it with discount for
> current
> E2E program;
>
> - Customers think that this should be covered by the investment
> protection
> in the E2E program...
>
> I4ve reviewed the investment protection policy, and as many of
> you I
> maybe have missunderstand this part:
>
> *"Automatic free updates of all electronic materials relating to a
> purchased
> product, as theyre released, for customers who purchased electronic
> OR
> printed editions of that product"*
>
> With all this IEWB RS V4 situation I can only interpret this line
> like
> this:
>
> "*Investment protection protects the product and not the
> program*"...
>
> With that in mind, my suggestion would be changing the E2E version
> number, right now IE has CCIE E2E v2.0, ok, now that IEWB RS V4 is
> released,
> insert it in the program, but change the version name to CCIE E2E
> v2.1, and
> give current customers the option to either buy the product alone
> (in case
> you release more than one new product that fits this policy at a
> time) or
> the upgrade to the brand new CCIE E2E "v2.1"... Both cases with major
> discounts to current customers.
>
> IMHO that will avoid confusions and missunderstandigs... what do you
> think ?! Anthony?! Anyone ?!
>
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