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?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02 -pekr-

That's just a plain rip-off, charging $10k for something that really hasn't even been proven any better than existing technology that's out there. I installed the .NET framework and promptly removed it as my system got violently ill. -Matt

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 > Entire article can be found at: > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098691,00.html?chkp

Hi John, << For $100/mo you get 170 million passport users for your site who don't have to go through a #@$% registration screen. >> Excellent point. All we can hope is that the partnership Carl alluede to in his interview will have some kind of plan for this type of thing. If it were indeed a large provider of some kind, giving users access to REBOL services would be a good thing and if developers could get micropayments, with the provider handling the accounting details, you would see a ton of services appear overnight (both a good and bad thing). --Gregg