Re: sharepoint pricing
"Stuart Laughlin (Lists)" <[email protected]>
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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