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Action Pack Design and Development - am I missing something

The Action Pack (see here: https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40138499) seems to be incredibly good value if I am understanding it correctly.

The price is $490 and if I'm understanding correctly it comes with 3x VS2010 Professional licenses, and on top of that, commercial use licenses for 10 Office 2010 Professional Plus users, 1x Server 2008 R2, 1x Exchange Server, heaps of CALS. Am I missing something here? It seems to be far to cheap.

Solution

  • There are some restrictions for the MS Action Pack:

    • Your company must have fewer than 100 employees
    • Your company cannot hold a MS silver or gold competency
    • You can't install Action Pack licensed software at a client site or use it for hosting commercial websites
    • You can only use it at your businesses main business location
    • You can't sell the licenses onto someone else

    They've got a full list here:Action Pack Restrictions and Usage Rights

    So:

    You can use the software to develop and test applications but not to run an app in a production environment. Once you start making money from your software MS wants its dime.

    But, as you say, it's a very good deal.