subscription. I am about to close a deal that would involve 3 Windows
2003 servers, SQL Server, and 40 copies of XP. Going through the
materials, I still do not know who to call.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:50 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Attempts at banking fraud
The US Action pack also requires you to be a partner, as I am. It is
free. All
that required was an exchange of email with the MS regional manager, and
a
telephone call.
The main difference between the MS program and the MM reseller programs
is that
MM requires a substantial up front payment to become a reseller.
I have been able to fully utilize the promotional materials and
presentations
accompanying the action pack from MS to assist in training customers,
and it has
really enhanced my sales of MS server products. You will receive enough
CD-ROM
based presentations to satisfy most any presentation need. Another
benefit is
being able to offer MS software through License Online, where your
customer can
purchase MS products, (as well as several other products) at attractive
discounts, all very legitimate. You are also given access to their mass
(spam?) marketing list to promote your own services as well as the
availability
of MS products through you.
To me the most exciting new product from MS is actually two products,
the first
being a fully licensed copy of the new CRM product, which is awesome in
itself,
but even more exciting is the conferencing software included in the new
Office
product, that puts MM's Flashcom to shame.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:00 AM
Subject: RE: Attempts at banking fraud
| In Australia the Microsoft Action Pack is available only to registered
| 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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