Paul, Microsoft terminology can be confusing at it's best.
We are not a Microsoft "Certified" Partner. We are a Registered Member of the Microsoft for Partners site. Notice the subtle difference? From the US website the following webpage outlines the various programs although it's not as clear as it could be: http://members.microsoft.com/partner/partnering/programs/default.aspx As far as I can tell pretty much anyone can be a Registered Member of the Partners site (although you do need a Passport account - shiver!). And according to the following page: http://www.microsoft.com/nz/partner/businessresources/actionpack/ being a Registered Member and being a reseller, consultant, system builder or IT professional who builds/provides solutions based on Microsoft Products and Technologies (ie it runs on Windows?) is pretty much all that is required to purchase the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription. For $869+GST (per year if you want to remain a subsciber and get further updates) it seems to include a lot of NFR (not for resale) products although I should warn you that we haven't actually subscribed so reality may not live up to the hype. If you want to go a step further and become a proper Microsoft "Certified" Partner then you get all of the Action Pack stuff and much, much more as part of it... but that is another, more difficult and expensive, story. David. Disclaimer: I really don't know that much about this stuff - my comments are based on fairly limited experience with Microsoft so don't take any of this as gospel. Perhaps an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or a phone call to Microsoft could help more... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Paul Ritchie > Sent: Monday, 12 August 2002 9:07 a.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: RE: [DUG]: mySQL > > > David Brennan wrote: > > And before you begin thinking that you couldn't be a > > Microsoft Partner, we are, it hasn't cost us > > anything to join, we don't have any Microsoft Certified > > developers working for us etc. > > David, on the MS site it says: > "Microsoft Certified Partners must have at least 2 Microsoft Certified > Professionals on staff, or 1 software product that successfully completes > one of the following software tests..." > > As you don't have any MCPs, I take it you mean that you have a > product that > passes one of those tests? > > cheers, > Paul. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
