Nov 7th's Budget-breakers (VS.Net + Server 05)

[sevenhalo]

This is vb.net related, but not entirely; sorry... I just can't find this anywhere.

Does anyone know how much VS.Net 2005 and SQL Server 2005 is going to cost?

--US Dollars
--Non-Upgrade

 

[jmcilhinney]

You need to follow the "How to Buy" links from the relevany product page. For VS 2005, follow the link below and select the version you want, then select the currency from the drop-down list:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vs2005/

For SQL Server: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/default.mspx

 

[TechGnome]

That reminds me. I need to look at the cost of upgrading to VS05.... *sigh*.... let's see, I expect that to cost two legs, one arm, and the first born..... they can keep the first born, I can make do w/o legs, I wonder if I can get them to come down one arm though.

-tg

 

[sevenhalo]

You're getting off better than I am. I have to buy it all new. I never owned a license, just used all of my corporate ones. My poor laptop is running IIS 5.1, Server 2000 (it's the entire test/dev system) and housing my development tools.

My house will be sold this week, and I'm using all the equity to invest in software. Needless to say, my financial planner is less than amused.

 

[TechGnome]

I'm having my wife whacked for the life insurance money just so I can afford the upgrade licenses. It isn't so much VS that's going to kill me, it's the third party tools and components where the real money is made/lost (made for them, lost for me).

-tg

 

[sevenhalo]

I haven't gotten into many third party tools (yet *fingers crossed*). I have ReportingServices and a combobox I bought from Intersoft for my ASP.Net pages (btw, really nice control; extremely flexible and fast. It does partial query searches, so you can populate it with thousands of items and not see a performance delay </plug>).

It's all smiles, sunshine and happiness until the beta's licenses expire and support stops.