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October 17, 2003A+ on Microsoft's Report CardRecently Scoble was giving Microsoft a report card on how they were doing. It is easy to criticize Microsoft due to its very size, and the fact we have had to put up with a lot of crap over the past few years as they dominated our lives. What was more funny was the last time I saw Scoble, I discussed how I didn't feel Microsoft was small ISV friendly, as I couldn't afford to buy all the software to run a Microsoft shop. Which was and is why I run Linux on all our servers. But today I want to give Microsoft some praise. More to the point, I would like to give Microsoft an A+ on working with small ISV like me. And I don't say that lightly. I mean it. Today I am impressed with something I heard about Microsoft's outreach to small ISVs like me. You see I complained a while ago about how expensive it was to tool up to do Windows kernel mode development. I was spoiled on all the free tools I have used on Linux and Unix enviornments for the past 7 years and forgot how much tools on Microsoft platforms cost. I spent thousands of dollars on new development tools (DDK, IFS Kit, Visual Studio etc etc) and easily spent enough money that I could have bought a good used car so I could deliver Pizza or something. Well today Joel on Software posted something that made my head spin around. After calling my Microsoft rep to check in about this I now retract my comments and would like to apologize to Microsoft.. atleast to a limiting degree. I think they were wrong in selling me stuff when they knew this program existed. Or atleast this information should be more readily available so more people might transition back from a Unix world to the Windows world for development. What am I talking about? I am talking about the Empower Program for ISV that Joel talked about today. For $795 US I am going to be getting:
I am also getting a software license with 5 Client Access Licenses (CALS) for:
Kudos to Microsoft on such a program. And thanks to Joel for pointing it out to me. Only wish Scoble would have known this so he could have told me before I sunk cash into everything else. Comments
Wow... could save our company a bunch of money. Even without MSDN Universal it would be a good deal. Obviously is a marketing ploy to get more people switched over and/or upgrading from their older tools/platforms, but it looks like a good deal as long as you get a software package announced and released as per their requirements. Thanks for the pointer. Posted by: Wim at October 17, 2003 05:47 PM |
 
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