A tremendous amount of activity in the Linux marketplace has
spurred Wave Technologies International, Inc…, to expand its
Linux training initiatives over the last six months. Wave
Technologies is a global leader in IT certification training and
development.”
“Although the Linux marketplace is in its infancy, Wave has
established a vital network of strategic relationships to provide
the power behind online, instructor-led and self study Linux
training initiatives,” said Ken Kousky, president and CEO of Wave
Technologies. “We believe that sooner or later the Linux
industry has to coalesce around services since the software is
free. We think the most scaleable element in the service portfolios
of Linux companies should be training.”
“…In our first year of business, we ran a radio ad with the
line ‘Get the software you WANT free when you get the training you
NEED,'” Kousky added. “We based that message on the premise that
the critical technologies of software will became cheaper and
cheaper while human resources and skills will become the
restraining factor. In the Linux space we believe that message
rings truer than ever, and that services will be most important
with training generating more revenue than software.”