IS .NET Training Worth It?

Question

II'm an IT professional with a PMI-PMP certification and 11 years of IS experience. I want to stay marketable and I'm thinking about taking a .NET training course that is pretty intense and expensive. Given that people on the other side of the planet are making $15 an hour for coding, will this class help me increase my marketability here in the US? I'm thinking that my next career move would be to become an application architecht and I'm thinking it would help me to intimiately understand the .NET environment in that role. Help?

Here is the program I'm interested in...

http://ipdweb.cs.depaul.edu/Prog_dotnet.htm

Answer 1

yes, it will. There's other less expesive ways (which are less intese too) to get the .NET cert.
Take some classes at a community college that offers a course on that within a curiculum.
At least that way you're garenteed to pass it the first time or second time around.
And it's not a crash study for X about of $$$, it's a proccess of study for say, maybe just a few cheap classes.

Unfortunatly it would help you because ink and paper impresses people for some odd reason. Of course there are REAL jobs that want you know actually KNOW it. And there are others that you could just get away with buying a study kit.

Or you could just start your own thing.
I have my own biz,
http://www.duelwave.com

Cya!
::: Peace :::