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>>You should work more closely with your local MS Sales office. I have a very good relationship with them. For example, they had a Solution Provider's Briefing scheduled for May to discuss databases and data access. I told them I couldn't make it cause I'll be at DevCon. They're rescheduling the briefing for another month.
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>Unfortunately I'm not in the direct loop ... my company treats the local MS contact as the Oracle at Delphi ... only our High Priest (my manager) is allowed to directly contact....silly, huh?


One other thought. You should send an email to foxmktg@microsoft.com. This will alert Robert Green the the problem and he'll persue it from inside Microsoft.