Topic: i was thinking of getting this

[jualdeaux]

I have been a registered MS Partner for some time (I have not used it much at all though). I have been to a couple of their seminars in the past that they give for people in the IT field and I have kept up the partner registration over the last few years. anyway, I was thinking about buying a Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS). It has a ton of stuff that comes with it. Uh, lets try this.

Current Welcome Kit # of Licenses # of Client Access Licenses Included in October 2006 Quarterly Update 

Microsoft Business Contact Manager for Office Outlook 2003 10 N/A   

Microsoft Business Contact Manager Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Service Pack 1* N/A N/A   

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, 1 10   

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard 1 10   

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2* N/A N/A   

Microsoft ISA Server Standard 2006 1 10 X 

Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 1 10   

Microsoft MapPoint 2004 Standard Edition (North America only)  10 N/A   

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 10 N/A   

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 10 N/A   

Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 10 N/A   

Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Service Pack 2* N/A N/A   

Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 10 N/A   

Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 1 N/A   

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 1 10   

Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 10 N/A   

Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 10 N/A   

Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 10 N/A   

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Workgroup Edition 10 N/A   

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition 1 10   

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 MultiLanguage version 10 N/A   

Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 10 N/A   

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition 10 N/A   

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition 10 N/A   

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard Edition  1  N/A   

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition 1 10   

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition 1 N/A   

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Standard 2003 1 N/A   

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition 1 10 X 

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Upgrade Edition, including Service Pack 2 10 N/A   

Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition 10 N/A

and it comes with Quarterly Updates so whenever they release a new version they will send it to me free of charge at the next quarterly update. so, for example, when they release Vista and the Office 2007 system I will get those as well. And the good news is that it only costs $300 for one year and the software does not expire when the subscription is done. The only thing that they say is that I can't use this software to actually make money. i can't use the server OS as a web based store for example. It is for internal use only. since I have no plans to use it any other way except for private use (cool new software to use and learn what it does) i would not be violating their policy. So, what say you? should I get it?