VS.NET is too EXPENSIVE. Developers switching rapidly from it.

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From: Mike Cox (mikecoxlinux_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/28/04 

Date: 28 Mar 2004 10:12:07 -0800

I'm a big fan of .NET and Visual Studio.NET. But at my company, we
are going to switch to Linux because, quite frankly, VS.NET costs way
too much in light of the huge competition from Linux. After all, in
order for MS to be successful it needs a large group of developers.

 At my company, I'm an MS proponent, but I have LOST the battle in
terms of justifiying the cost of using Visual Studio when there are
free Linux alternatives. My company won't use Visual Studio.NET stuff
for internal use because of its cost. Why should management spend
thousands of dollars per year for MSDN and VS.NET per developer when
it can just use Open Source software and documentation for free?
Especially considering the fact that g++ is really standards
compliant, and that there is ACE+TAO for CORBA development. There is
troll tech for GUI app development which is completely cross-platform,
and you can choose the license you want, GPL or commercial. There is
even mono and eclipse for .NET development.

Why does anyone need Microsoft Visual Studio.NET and MSDN then?
Especially when it costs thousands per yer for one developer? I can't
make the cost argument, and there aren't any Visual Studio.NET
installations at my company, only VS 6.0, and any upgrades that happen
will be to Linux.

But all is not lost. If you follow my pricing guide lines, you will
see people stay or convert to VS.NET. I am in the trenches so I know
what is going on. Here are my price ideas for VS.NET:

Visual Studio.NET Professional: 129 dollars
Visual Studio.NET Enterprise : 199 dollars
MSDN (The Enterprise version) : 125 dollars per year.
VS C# Basic Edition: 29 dollars.

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