>>Like everyone else I do not like spending US$2,000 for just about anything <g> but in this case I can get just about every piece of software Microsoft has - working, production copies to boot - all for a very reasonable price.
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>All of the software included have real licences, none of this "for development only" stuff. Can you list out what you get and the numbers of licences? The Microsoft site is kinda vague on what you get.

Just for starters (these make it worth my while):

Visual Studio
Windows NT/2K/98
SQL Server
Exchange