It's really hard to compare the PC world to the mainframe world. Not only the hardware is different so is the opsys, unless your running Linux/Unix and not Windoze. The programmer or admin as ppl call them think differently.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 31, 2013, at 5:19 PM, Andrew Rowley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/02/2013 7:53, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >> By comparison, an MSDN Visual Studio Ultimate subscription from >> Microsoft is $13K + $5K/year PER DEVELOPER, doesn't include hardware or >> system configuration expertise, and provides only four tech support >> incidents per year. > > That is the very top end cost... there are many cheaper options, including > free Express versions of the compiler. > > And for startups, Microsoft has the BizSpark program which provides pretty > much everything for developing on Windows free for 3 years, for organizations > less than 5 years old and with revenue less than one million dollars. > > That program was designed to counter exactly this problem - startups > developing on other platforms because they were cheaper e.g. free. > > Andrew Rowley > > -- > [email protected] > +61 413 302 386 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
