John Cullen Joins Directions on Microsoft Licensing Team

KIRKLAND, Wash., Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Directions on Microsoft has added a new expert to its Microsoft Licensing analyst team: John Cullen. "We were searching for the best and we found it," says Co-Founder and Research Chair Rob Horwitz. Mr. Cullen, who holds two graduate law degrees, spent nearly a decade at Microsoft resolving the complex licensing issues faced by Microsoft's largest enterprise customers and partners. Most recently, Mr. Cullen worked on the team that writes the licensing rules for Windows Server.

Cullen's extensive experience and unique insights add further depth to Directions' Microsoft licensing information and training service.  This service includes an entire library of in-depth guides to licensing Microsoft's enterprise technologies as well as guides to Microsoft's volume licensing programs. It also includes intensive, two-day Microsoft Licensing Boot Camps that train IT professionals how to intelligently evaluate their Microsoft licensing options and derive maximum value from their software investments. Over 350 IT professionals – including CIOs, solution architects, software assets managers, and IT procurement managers -- have attended the Boot Camp since it was launched in late 2009.

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