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Microsoft Certified Partner Program and IT Contractors
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| Jeffrey Cumpsty 2003-01-20, 5:23 am |
| Does anyone know how an independant contractor is supposed to become a
Certified Partner?
I am a one man company in England and develop software in Visual Basic
6 and Visual Studio .NET.
I only have one employee...me, so although I am an MCP I dont meet
that requirement.
I develop custom applications, so I don't have a particular product to
submit for verification.
I would expect that there are other people in my line of work, who use
microsoft products and want to be a certified partner. I want the
MSDN library primarily, and this is the cheapest way to get it.
Thanks for any help.
Jeff Cumpsty
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| Piginapen 2003-01-21, 3:23 am |
| The basic Microsoft partner level is a joke. The vetting system employed by
Microsoft is non existent, hence there are thousands of 'entry level
partners' who tick ever business area of expertise going.
If you really want to become a partner, simple get your company secretary to
pass one exam and that's really it. Many 'one man bands' do this, but I will
not make a bit of difference as the entry level partnerships are considered
a joke and a waste of time.
If you are just after the msdn, shop around, you should be able to find a
two subscriptions for around 2000 USD.
"Jeffrey Cumpsty" <jeff@cumpsty.co.uk> wrote in message
news:648475e8.0301200159.447ab2ce@posting.google.com...
> Does anyone know how an independant contractor is supposed to become a
> Certified Partner?
>
> I am a one man company in England and develop software in Visual Basic
> 6 and Visual Studio .NET.
>
> I only have one employee...me, so although I am an MCP I dont meet
> that requirement.
>
> I develop custom applications, so I don't have a particular product to
> submit for verification.
>
> I would expect that there are other people in my line of work, who use
> microsoft products and want to be a certified partner. I want the
> MSDN library primarily, and this is the cheapest way to get it.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Jeff Cumpsty
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| Jeffrey Cumpsty 2003-01-24, 6:23 am |
| Thanks for your advice...It doesnt really help but thanks for your two
cents worth anyway.
My company secretary is not very computer literate. She is my wife
and is only down on paper. She has three kids to take care of and
does not have any time to study for MS Exams.
As for shopping around, $2000 is still more than the MS Certified
Partner costs. Becoming a Certified partner is £1000 (I live in
England), and the MSDN Universal is part of it, as well as some
support instances as well and other things. As much as I hate to oil
the MS machine, they keep me employed.
Cheers
Jeff
"Piginapen" <Piginapen@Piginapen.rollup> wrote in message news:<OzXgUPSwCHA.2680@TK2MSFTNGP09>...
> The basic Microsoft partner level is a joke. The vetting system employed by
> Microsoft is non existent, hence there are thousands of 'entry level
> partners' who tick ever business area of expertise going.
>
>
>
> If you really want to become a partner, simple get your company secretary to
> pass one exam and that's really it. Many 'one man bands' do this, but I will
> not make a bit of difference as the entry level partnerships are considered
> a joke and a waste of time.
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> If you are just after the msdn, shop around, you should be able to find a
> two subscriptions for around 2000 USD.
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| Alan Davis 2003-01-24, 7:23 am |
| >As for shopping around, $2000 is still more than the MS Certified
>Partner costs. Becoming a Certified partner is £1000 (I live in
>England), and the MSDN Universal is part of it, as well as some
>support instances as well and other things.
1000 GBP for the partner thing is per 'whole year'.
You can get a two year msdn universal subscription for less than 2000
GBP (even less for a renewal up 'upgrade') - if you shop around.
This also includes [some] support issues.
Anyway, the whole partner bit is fairly meaningless. There are many
two man (wife) bands out there that the concept of a 'partner' has
been lost hence the big difference with 'gold' status.
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