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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Deploy/Adopt: Realizing Value : Partners</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/cmross/archive/tags/Partners/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Partners</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>See you at WPC09</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/cmross/archive/2009/03/20/see-you-at-wpc09.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:08:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3215768</guid><dc:creator>cmross</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/cmross/comments/3215768.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/cmross/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3215768</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40018508"&gt;&lt;img title="image" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="134" alt="image" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/cmross/WindowsLiveWriter/SeeyouatWPC09_EEFA/image_3.png" width="427" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’ll tell you right now.&amp;#160; &lt;strong&gt;I love our Partner community!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160; That’s right.&amp;#160; When I look at the success our customers have in deploying and managing our software platforms, and how they’ve adopted it through solutions and out-of-the-box capabilities I know that many times &lt;strong&gt;Partners make the difference between just licensing software and realizing value.&amp;#160; &lt;/strong&gt;So I always look forward to WPC as a way to meet up with a lot of great Partners that I frequently only know through emails and conference calls :)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you are a Microsoft Partner &lt;strong&gt;you need to be at WPC this year&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;#160; In addition to meeting me (!!) you’ll experience the best sessions, the best networking and the best all-around Thank You experience Microsoft can give.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As soon as the networking is turned on, I’ll let everyone know.&amp;#160; If you have service offerings related to deployment or adoption, I’d love to meet you and at least exchange cards and promise to look for opportunities to work together.&amp;#160; I’ll also have my Twitter account going (you have one, don’t you?) so maybe I can figure out a cool scavenger hunt or game of tag to play with everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3215768" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/cmross/archive/tags/Partners/default.aspx">Partners</category></item></channel></rss>