We did the BizSpark program and loved it. In fact, our 3 year period is almost up. I don't get why people think you end up stuck with having to buy a bunch of l

We did the BizSpark program and loved it. In fact, our 3 year period is almost up. I don't get why people think you end up stuck with having to buy a bunch of licenses. Azure has basically changed all that now. Just like any other cloud platform, you pay for what you use. Except in this case you get IIS, SQL Server and many other enterprise level services. In case anyone was curious, here is the email they send you at the end of the program. "Your graduation from the Microsoft BizSpark program is just one month away! The great news is that you can complete the graduation process in just three simple steps: Answer a few questions. Give us a little feedback. Get your licenses. The entire process takes just minutes. Since there are both business and technical questions, however, we do recommend both the CTO and the CEO take the time to go through the process together. If you complete the graduation process by your graduation date, you may keep and continue to use all the software you received as part of your BizSpark MSDN Subscription for development and testing purposes. If your startup has servers in production, you will have perpetual rights to your Windows and SQL Server software solution production licenses. And, we have removed the $100 exit fee for the BizSpark program."