"Rémi Blanchette" <remi.blanchette@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Folks,
> I am having some problem identifying which license I need for my project
> and
> I am desperately searching for three things:
>
> 1- a matrix comparison of feature available in the different version of
> Visual Studio 2008 and team edition?
> 2- the requirements of the different product version and SQL server? (i.e.
> will the entity framework work with SQL server 2005?)
> 3- the necessity or not to have the team foundation server for a team of
> 5-10 person and the impact on the licensing
>
> Anything that can help me shape the licensing picture would be welcome;
> there ought to be some sort of Microsoft vendor somewhere and its whole
> job
> is to help me figure this out. Any pointer how to contact sales support
> would be great...
Product comparison for VS2008 Team system editions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vsts.../cc149003.aspx
We can probably help. Do I presume correctly that you want to use TFS, but
you will have fewer than 6 people using it? If so then you should get an
MSDN premium with a Team Edition subscription (e.g. Visual Studio Team
System 2008 Development Edition with MSDN Premium) for each person. Each
subscription comes with a TFS CAL, and if you have at least one team system
subscription then you can use TFS workgroup edition for free which allows
you to have up to 5 licenced users.
I'm not sure what you mean about SQL Server licencing. If you get a Team
Edition subscription for each developer then they will each have a SQL
Server Developer Edition licence for writing apps against.