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How much money would .NET make them if it wasn't attached to Windows OS sales? If they detached .NET & Visual Studio, where will they make the money from it?
by mahyarm 14y ago
How much money would .NET make them if it wasn't attached to Windows OS sales? If they detached .NET & Visual Studio, where will they make the money from it? For Sun, Java at least ran high end server product sales.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoIt's complicated. The runtime, the libraries, and the web server are all free. But Visual Studio makes money, and the team foundation system makes a lot of money. If you take all of that together then on its own it would be a company with ten figure annual revenue. In a hypothetical alternate Universe where .net 1.0 launched on linux/unix as well and they were able to gain a lot more traction in those communities then one would expect VS and perhaps TFS sales to increase concomitantly. Also, such an independent company would probably have a wider range of products for sale if they weren't tied to the Windows/Office ATM, though of course that's more speculative.