Is there, in fact, a Linux training market out there?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

This crowd isn't very likely to contain a direct customer.  Most of us try
to figure things out for ourselves.  And we're cheap.

Some (not me) have gigs in big organizations (eg. bank datacentres)
that should be reasonable customers.  But most of them have been hired
as techies, not managers, so they don't make the buying decisions.
(This is a pure guess on my part.)

Your question might get more answers from a different audience.  Not
that I know how to find that audience.

We, the Linux community, need to have people offering those services.
I just don't know how to get you the business to thrive.

I imagine hiring IBM is a comfortable thing.  One-stop-shopping for
tonnes of stuff.  And their rep is on the line for each transaction.
When you contract for services from a million different providers,
there is an apparently large overhead of uncertainty.

At one time, gurus were suggesting "virtual corporations".  Perhaps
they meant fluid federations of independent entities.  Perhaps that
is what you need.  This would add value if the federation could
provide an imprimateur: all in the federation vouch for each.
I'm not sure that this ends up being very different from a real
corporation.
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