Technet equivalents for other companies?

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I wonder if any other companies have an equivalent of Technet for IT professionals that support there products or other training resources for future professionals ?

Examples:-

VMware
Netware
HP
SAP
IBM
Apple
CISCO
Oracle
Sybase

... you get the idea, basically to get access to there products for home labs etc.

I thought it may be useful to build a list.

Perhaps people could add to the list with links to such resources?

 

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VMware - Already offer Trial versions of various products, the only stipulation is that it has to be a business address and can't be a free email address (ie Hotmail\Yahoo\Gmail are all out). Also don't forget that they also offer Free products (ESXI Free and VMware Server 2)

Netware - Netware used to offer something to their CNE's many moons ago

IBM - Big Blue do offer software to their Tivoli consultants, may be worth examining what the requirements for this are.

Apple - The problem with Apple is that their OS license EULA stipulates that it has to be on Apple Hardware, however saying that they still offer trial software as well.

CISCO - Hmm this would be kinda hard as the majority of their products use bespoke hardware, obviously there are the likes of CCM and Cisco Works etc.

 

I was thinks of non time-outs and other informational resources made available to professionals.

I believe they have software products to simulate there hardware products. CISCO academy?