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Author Re: Visual Studio vs. MSDN Universal
Lawrence Groves

2004-03-28, 10:08 pm

"Ed" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FB8C15CE-AF33-4608-B626-805D1A8C2082@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for your reply Jonathan. I believe you are correct in what you are

saying, but I also need to know for sure. I contacted an MSDN rep via the
800 number, and she couldn't understand the question, so I had her transfer
me to sales, who said you DID need a separate VS.Net license if you were
going to write code that is used for sale or in a production server.
> Can someone please help with this? It seems what Microsoft says in

writing and on the phone contradicts. How can we get a definitive answer
for this?

As usual, the sales guys are full of it :-)

The code you write using the VS included in the subscription can be sold,
distributed, run, whatever in a production environment. The confussion
arrises because you can't run it on (for example) an MSDN version of Windows
2000, in a production environment. But so long as your customer has a retail
copy of the OS (and any other required programs, such as SQL Server), they
can run the code that you developed.

HTH, Loz.


2004-03-28, 10:08 pm

LG [Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:34:33 -0000]:
>distributed, run, whatever in a production environment. The confussion
>arrises because you can't run it on (for example) an MSDN version of Windows
>2000, in a production environment.


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