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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (54566)	6/12/2003 7:41:37 PM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well, maybe that's one reason they decided to price developer at $49 instead of hundreds of dollars. I don't understand what the big deal is though, either Developer works for you or it doesn't. If you're a consultant who sometimes prototypes or does initial development work on your home PC it makes a lot of sense to use Developer. Same goes for large organizations who may have programmers working on early prototypes at their desk or who work on other systems that need to interface to SQL Server databases, where they don't want or need to provide the full-fledged Enterprise product. Not every developer in every situation needs the Enterprise licensing.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (54566)	6/12/2003 8:02:01 PM
From: Tom C	Respond to of 64865

But having to do a full deployment before thorough testing isn't very cost effective, IMHO. You didn't read what Mark said. He said: You would put a Developer license on a developer machine, which should be segregated from your testing and production environments anyway. This exactly what we do except they are on machines in the development lab which mirror, within reason, the production environment. It's the same as the standard version only it's licensed differently. It's not like it's a "desktop" version or a single user version like Personal Oracle. It's a developer license to use the product. You can't deploy it under that license but you can develop the application using it.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (54566)	6/13/2003 9:17:31 AM
From: Mark Marcellus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

BTW, I'm curious. Oracle has just launched a hostile takeover bid which, if completed, would essentially allow them to acquire Peoplesoft's customer base and eliminate a competitive product. Even if it goes nowhere, it has crippled Peoplesoft as a competitor and at the same time torpedoed Peoplesoft's friendly takeover of JD Edwards which would have served to make Peoplesoft a stronger competitor against Oracle. Based on my past readings of this board, I think that if MSFT had pulled a stunt like this I'd be wading through hundreds of post condemning them. So my question is, where is the outrage?