>>>>And how much will this set you back?
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>>>to think they could have had a good development studio by leaving out source safe and vb...
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>>I was just reading the MS hype on it...it looks like a full install will run only about 2 gigs. I didn't see anything on pricing, but if you add up the parts, you get a pretty big whole...or hole in pocketbook? :~)
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>come on guys , it is not that bad
>sure it is very good to MS - les codebase to maintain (the tools will share IDE,add ins etc.)
>but it is also very good for developers, because it simlifies the sharing of devtools while still maintaining benefiet of specialized tools
>you can more easliy incoroprate the fast .dll you wrote in c++ with the DB of VFP and deploy it all with on the internet VIneterDEV etc.
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Perhaps you're right, and we shouldn't yell until we see the cost. Anyway, I think they'll have to price it a lot less than the sum of its parts to get it moving...and likely special upgrade rate for users of any one of the parts...