Someone inside Microsoft gives me a clear info about this: to be clear, developers will get .NET My Services bits as part of SDK for free if they subscribe MSDN.
1.5K/per app is for partner who wants to test/to be certified against a live testing environment hosted by Microsoft. The 10K fee is for the ASP/ISP partners who host web applications that consume the .NET My Services hosted by Microsoft. peter -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Microsoft .NET Licensing If Microsoft wants .Net to succeed, it should make developer access free. How many Windows applications would there be today if every developer of such an application had to pay Microsoft $10,000 per year? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 23:02 Subject: Microsoft .NET Licensing > > This should be of interest to some of the developers in this group. > > Developers: What .Net will cost you > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7629784.html?tag=mn_hd > > >From the article: > "For standard use, which Microsoft expects will involve the majority of > users, > Microsoft will charge $10,000 per year for using .Net My Services and > $1,500 > per application." > > Kyle Lussier > www.AutoNOC.com > >
