Re: sharepoint pricing
"Simon Wilson" <simon-maq/kyLDKcVJGtrJk59bu9i2O/[email protected]>
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If all you need is to use Sharepoint to learn how to develop for it, then just use Sharepoint Foundation which is free from Microsoft. Only Sharepoint Server costs money. Simon From: Stuart Laughlin (Lists) Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 3:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OT] sharepoint pricing 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email --------------------------------------------------------------------------------