Date:         Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:46:47 -0600
Reply-To:     "Dunn, Toby" <tdunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US>
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From:         "Dunn, Toby" <tdunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US>
Subject:      Re: Alternative SAS training, anyone seen this
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Hey Charles,

I enjoyed your little tutorials on your website.

Toby

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Charles Patridge
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:41 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Alternative SAS training, anyone seen this

I saw these videos demoed at a local HASUG meeting.  Pretty good quality
and content was developed by Destiny (not SAS INstitute).

The price I believe is about $300 per CD (for 1 class) and is good for 1
full year.  But I suggest you contact Stew Silverman or Dana Rafiee of
vDestiny to get the actual pricing schedule and how long the CDs are
legal
for internal use.

Much better quality then what I tried to create back in April 2000 but
the
technology has gotten much better since then.  I gave up because people
were not willing to spend that kind of money for a CD.  In fact it
seemed
people were only willing to spend about $10 or so.  It was a no brainer
for
me to decide this was not worth doing (at least back then) to continue
to
try to build additional materials.

And in the past 4 years, I have only received about 12 contacts askign
for
more online videos - so the numbers just were not there to justify
spending
200 or so manhours to develop a 1 hour video class.

But maybe Destiny and others will have more success with this than I did
-
and they have more $$$ and resources to do a better job than I did.

HTH,
Charles Patridge


This is not a plug for Destiny or any other such company - just my
opinion.