>Now how do you think that's gonna go dude? You think Contractor A is going to walk away with the deal? Hell no - he will be laughed right out the door.

Actually, he'll never get in that door.

The default platform today, like it or not, is the browser and the default data and development tools are open source.
Lots of ASP.net work out there, for sure, but the direction is clearly open source.
Would Facebook exist if Mark had had to buy SQL Server licenses?