Because you're comparing Professional Edition to Standard Edition. The Standard Edition is quite limited in what you can do with it.

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>This is good news. One thing about the pricing though....
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>VB .NET Std 2003 Win32 English CD
>$109.00
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>VC#.NET Std 2003 Win32 English CD
>$109.00
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>VC++ .NET Std 2003 Win32 English CD
>$109.00
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>VFoxPro Pro 8.0 Win32 English CD
>$649.00
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>VFoxPro Pro 8.0 Win32 English NA UPG CD
>$349.00
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>Ok someone please tell me why VFP costs 6 times as much as VB or VC# or VC++. Heck even the upgrade is 3 times the cost of the full versions of these others! damn!