partners. You cannot legally buy the US $299 deal and use it in Australia.
The Action pack is intended to allow the Microsoft Sales Partners to have
fully legit copies of all the latest software, in production environments
(but not web sites) running their businesses on the latest stuff, in order
to be fully conversant with it when they come to talk to potential
customers. It was a clever way to make it more worthwhile for partners to
get the software legitimately than the common practice prevailing before the
action pack was released - namely buy a copy for inventory or for customer
use and make dodgy copies before delivering to customers.
It's a splendid idea I think, because suddenly, all those dealers,
resellers, recommenders had not only legal copies of the products they
normally sell, but the other things they wouldn't normally sell too. Enough
to run a small business on. (Larger businesses could afford to buy their own
copies of software, Microsoft reasons).
I think this is a logic that could prove profitable for Macromedia too. I
develop web sites but every time a new version of software comes out, I have
to pay to buy full copies of everything (Unless I happen to fluke a freebie
at a CFUG meeting!!). If MM want us all to be selling and recommending
their products, what better way than to make sure we're all using the
latest versions of everything? They wouldn't have to do it for free, or
even near-free, as Microsoft has proved. But the MS Action Pack gives the
equivalent of the entire business product line for A$500 a year.
How many of us were reluctant to update to MX2004 products because of the
expense, and the fact that we'd only recently bought MX? How are we all
supposed to talk confidently about MX2004 if we're only using MX ourselves?
My suggestion? Macromedia start having NFR software available to legit
dealers/resellers. At the moment (as I understand it) it's only available
to partners, who have to pay some thousands of bucks to be partners. Makes
it right out of the ballpark of us small shops. I'm only a one-man business.
I can't afford to pay thousands of dollars for anything, no matter how
desirable. Specially not if it's going to be out of date in a year, as
all software will.
Cheers,
Michael Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Ruckelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 12:27 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Attempts at banking fraud
Actually, the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription is legit. For $299 you get
a whole boatload of software, along with 10 licenses (or 10 CAL's for server
products). The catch is that it's only "licensed" for 12 months. In all,
it's a good deal, sometimes made even better...I got mine for $99 after a
$200 "coupon".
Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Tilbrook
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: OT: Attempts at banking fraud
It staggers me that there are people in the world who will attempt to rob
others by cleverly imitating a bank/credit unions email to attempt to gain
access to someones funds. They usually attempt this with cleverly crafted
"HTML" email messages. Microsoft has also fallen victim to this atttempt
at
validity by the look of a message alone.
I've received a few of these lately.
Keep in mind it is highly unlikely that your own bank would ever send you
something via email that would ever ask you for personal information (they
would more than likely have it already). In fact your bank would not even
really need to know your email address at all.
Whenever I receive these bogus messages, and I have received several, I
forward them to the Australia Federal Police in their entirety. You should
do the same to your respective law enforcers (eg: FBI).
PS. I'm not even sure if it was a valid email but Microsoft are offering
$25,000 worth of software for $299 through their "Partner" program. It
looks
legitimate - clever - but probably not the real deal.
Peter Tilbrook
ColdFusion Applications Developer
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