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[REBOL] Re: MS .Net pricing ...

From: jseq:mediaone at: 24-Oct-2001 8:13

Hosting a secure service is expensive - MS says they're barely covering costs on .NET, and I don't doubt this. For $100/mo you get 170 million passport users for your site who don't have to go through a #@$% registration screen. As much as I don't want to see their monopoly extended to web services, I don't think it will fail because of pricing or their oh-so-sleepy competitors (Magic Carpet and Liberty Alliance's less proven vapor-ware). As Carl pointed out, trust/security is a more likely risk for them. John Sequeira http://www.pobox.com/~johnseq [johnseq--pobox--com]
> -----Original Message----- > From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]On > Behalf Of Petr Krenzelok > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:57 AM > To: [rebol-list--rebol--com] > Subject: [REBOL] MS .Net pricing ... > > Hi, > > OSNews.com bring info about MS .Net pricing. Although I don't understand > it correctly, I think that prices are pretty high ... > > --------- > Microsoft is moving along with the deployment of .NET by announcing the > first details of what it will charge software developers to build > applications linked to its .Net My Services Web services plan. For > entry-level, small-scale applications, Microsoft will charge developers > $1,000 a year for access to .Net My Services and $250 per application > they create. For standard use, which Microsoft expects will involve the > majority of users, Microsoft will charge $10,000 per year for using .Net > My Services and $1,500 per application. > --------- > Entire article can be found at: > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098691,00.html?chkp
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