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> Additionally, full-blown Visual Studio is totally free now. Not exactly. Anyone inside an "enterprise organization" (according to Microsoft's arbitrary defin
by mrpippy 12y ago
> Additionally, full-blown Visual Studio is totally free now.
Not exactly. Anyone inside an "enterprise organization" (according to Microsoft's arbitrary definition) is even worse off than before, because Microsoft won't be releasing the Express editions any more.
From http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community...
Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:
- Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.
Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:
- An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
- For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
- ctvo 12y agoYes, because those organizations on the MS stack were all running the Express edition and didn't have MSDN licenses, right?
- nightski 12y agoIf you have > $1M in revenue or > 250 PCs I hope you can afford a $99 VS upgrade license...
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Not exactly. Anyone inside an "enterprise organization" (according to Microsoft's arbitrary definition) is even worse off than before, because Microsoft won't be releasing the Express editions any more. I doubt that there were ever significant numbers of developers in enterprise organizations using Express Editions anyway. If you are doing serious business, the cost of paid licenses (and MSDN subscriptions) is generally justified if you are going to be using MS technologies.