Monday, July 25, 2005

Team System Pricing at Oz Announced

Just saw this over at David Lemphers blog that team system pricing has been announced for Oz.
Basically if you have MSDN universal it only works out to $1,739.00 to get it.
I've had quite a lot of conversations recently with people complaining about having to pay anything extra to get this product, also a lot of people seem to think it is only good for large development shops.

I used an early build of Team System for relatively small 3 person project and it saved us a bucket load of time. In fact I can't stop raving about how cool the the designers in the architect edition and there are plenty of other great features in there as well.

For a project I'm working on now we have run into a whole bunch of problems with the machines we are deploying to being more locked down by the IT division of the company than initially thought. Also there had been various visio and other diagrams done to explain which componets live on which machines etc and these are all static diagrams that need to be manually updated if a design decision changes the code. This is precisely one of the situations the architect features address !!

I'm sure this is something which of other developers have run into along the way.
If you have a think about some of these features in Team system and then add up how much time they will save, I reakon it will more than pay for itself even for small projects.

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