On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Gil Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > This would be a great time to look into the M$ Empower ISV program, where > you can get full MSDN for a year for under $400 (used to be about that much,
Yeah, yeah, been there, done that, torn the T-shirt to shreds by now. I was one of the original Microsoft Solutions Channel partners (the program before the Provider program) and have been on that hamster-wheel before. $400 a year, then $495, then $695, then you need a certified whatsits on staff, then 2... Not interested. We're supporting a legacy FoxPro program and just have to get it to run under the Microsoft OS-du-jour. We no longer develop on MS platforms. We just need to buy one machine, one license, then we can get it to dual-boot something useful like Ubuntu the rest of the time. The problem with a VPC is that it's virtual and it's more hassles setting up a host machine. Our large-iron machine that could support VMs are all Linux based, and I'm not familiar with the issues of getting Vista to run on a non-VPC VM, so just sinking the money into a hardware purchase we can repurpose (dual-boot!) for other uses seems to make more sense. > https://partner.microsoft.com/40011351 (you will want to use IE, of course, > to have their site display correctly. Not FF friendly) I will never WANT to use IE, but can probably scrounge up a copy around here somewhere. I've got it in a VM on one of my Linux boxen. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
