RE: "Vista plodding along 6 months after release"

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farglebargle -> RE: "Vista plodding along 6 months after release" (7/18/2007 11:49:25 AM)
What did you pay to license your development tools? Your test & development & QA DB servers? Now, I understand that is spread out among the projects done, but if you're a real player, those costs are SIGNIFICANT. Aside from that, how much did you spend the last time Microsoft dumped on you? Did you get nailed by the abandonment of Visual Basic, too?

DomKen -> RE: "Vista plodding along 6 months after release" (7/18/2007 1:28:22 PM)
Dev tools? I'd have to check into it but Visual Studio retails for $725 but we have a multi site license so I'm sure that it cost us less than that. Our MSDN subscription runs about $1500 a year I think. We have a bunch of rack mounts for testing and DB's so I'm going to guess that that's another $20k or so of hardware. Desktop dev machnes probably run closer to $2k each as we get big monitors and roomy hard drives. However we don't use free dev tools for Linux development. We found the freeware projects to not have good interfaces and CVS was insufficient for our version control needs neither was VSS so don't think we're wedded to MS for everything. Also we still need a decent DB server even when we're doing an app using MySQL which is pretty rare. If we're writing code for a Linux/UNIX environment we're much more likely to be using Oracle which is significantly more expensive than SQL Server. We're primarily a C++ shop with a little C# and VB but those were/are small projects and dumping both would cost us only a small amount of work. My biggest complaint is that the MS C++ compiler still isn't close enough to the standard to allow me to use the locale stuff that is built into the STL. But these total costs are really pretty minor when we're doing multiple high 6 and low 7 figure software projects per year.

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