Re: sharepoint pricing

"Stuart Laughlin (Lists)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.off-topic
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Steve Richter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> is sharepoint this expensive?
> http://www.softwaremedia.com/product/13465.html?ovchn=NXT&ovcrn=76P-01199&ovtac=CMP&ovcpn=
>
> I would like to target myself to write apps for local businesses,
> working out of a storefront in town. I was thinking Access running on
> sharepoint.
>

What heinous crime did you commit in a past life? ;)

What kinds of apps do you foresee yourself writing in this way?
SharePoint is a horrible development platform (imho, obviously).

> But if the price is $5000 for 5 sharepoint users then I
> am afraid that limits the customers I can attract.
>

Imagine if you had an excellent web development platform that runs on
a platform which has no licensing costs. Think it would be easier to
attract clients in that scenario?

http://djangoproject.com
http://rubyonrails.org

You could even develop and deploy on Windows, if you insist.

Just my $0.02.


--Stuart
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