Imagine this.. You work in a medium sized company, using MSSQL2005 and nothing else.

They are very tight on budget, try to be productive, focused and specialised, unlike government orgs and banks where there's a great variety of things.

You would like to learn COgnos and TM1. THere is no bloody way this company would pay for it. But it is not a secret that if you have MSSQL expertise and Cognos and TM1 you open youself to another several thousand cool jobs.

So what do we do? blindly pay and go for a course? Or download a cracked/evaluation version and learn ourselves for free but with no paper given in the end of the learning?