Microsoft partners have at least another year to figure out if they want to hit new revenue targets to achieve Gold status. Perhaps more important, they now have an inkling of what those revenue targets will be.
Microsoft pushed the deadline back from October 2011 to October 2012. The stated reason is it wants to make sure it has the most accurate measurement system in place.
But many partners suspect the real reason is that there were so many complaints about the requirement that Microsoft had to regroup. The delay was mentioned in a post to the Microsoft Partner Portal in late June and comes just before the big Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference kicks off in Los Angeles next week.
Microsoft unmasks revenue targets
These revenue targets -- based on geography and skill set -- remain a huge issue for Microsoft partners. According to the MPN website, a U.S. partner must hit $100,000 to $500,000 in revenue, depending on competency. A Gold partner with a badge in application integration, volume licensing or Web development, for example, must attain $100,000 in revenue while a CRM Gold ISV has to hit $500,000. In the past there was no revenue requirement, per se.
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