Microsoft Certified Partners are independent companies that can provide you with a high level of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on skills. Microsoft Certified Partners encompass a broad range of expertise and vendor affiliations and their real world perspective can help you prioritize and effectively deliver your technology solutions.

Microsoft Small Business Specialists are partners who recognize that small-business customers have IT needs and who are able to meet those needs with high-quality solutions built on Microsoft technologies. The solutions are configured according to customer requirements and are supported to ensure customer satisfaction.

More than 15,000 solution providers already do business with Dell. Now, with PartnerDirect, we're making it easier to work together. By working together, we believe that Dell and solution providers can solve today's most pressing customer concern: the complexity of IT.

VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center, with 2007 revenues of $1.33 billion, more than 120,000 customers and more than 20,000 partners. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.