>Some companies, too, will give things away in order to get business on related products. I remember that Kodak used to give the company I worked for free cameras (good quality professional quality ones) with a contract to purchase film/paper exclusively from them.
>Somehow I think that certification is GOOD BUSINESS for MS regardless of their "profit" on that matter.
I basically agree here. Whether they make money directly from the certificacions or not, pressumably the very fact that they have a certification program increases the prestige of their products, helps people who use the products get support (without which the product might be less usable for many), etc.
At the same time, all this should also make the certification an interesting investment for those who pursue them.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)