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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (54533)	6/10/2003 7:52:26 AM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Offering SQL Server Developer for cheap is something MSFT should have done long ago. For anything serious you're going to have to buy standard anyway before you put it into production, selling Developer cheap means people are more likely to try it out when prototyping applications. I'd say there's very little chance that you'd do a straight replace of an Access or Foxpro app with a SQL Server Developer app. If it's just a small to medium database app, why take on all the SQL Server overhead? OTOH, if you're doing it because you need the horsepower, you'd go into production with Standard anyway. After all, Oracle gives out Personal Edition for free.