Re: Cost of RDP

But as a weekend DIYer, I want/need the professional tool. I would
have to work my part-time gig for 6+ months sometimes just to buy the
initial tool. The cost is just too high for my budget (and many
others).

The base version of Visual Studio is $550 with no maintenance and
comes with many more tools and utilities. But then they started a new
program called WebSpark for people to get Microsofts dev tools. Its
free initially.

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http://mikewills.me

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On Jul 3, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Let's say just for a giggle that RDP saves you an hour a week (and I
guarantee it saves me a lot more than that) over WDSC. That's 50 hours
a year, give or take. So a quick divide tells me you consider your time
to be worth about four bucks an hour. Yeah, I know that might be a bit
over-simplified, but hopefully you get my drift. $800 just ain't that
much as a one-time cost. It's the same reason carpenters and mechanics
spend way more for their tools than weekend do-it-yourselfers.

Joe

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:03:40 +0100, Brian Parkins wrote:

A number of folk appear to be “stuck” on WDSc v7, or forced back on to
WDSc when their 60-day trial of RDP ends. Purely out of personal
curiosity, what would the price of RDP have to be to encourage you to
purchase it yourself?

I'd say $200/year would be about my limit, with $200 purchase price with
the first year's upgrades/patches included.

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