What a Bargin, well for MS products anyway

[Ribeyed]

Hi Forum,
Found out this one yesterday and thought i would share this with this forum. For those who don't already know about this Microsoft have an Action Pack which is subscription based but provides you with a low cost way to access new Microsoft software.
Having priced the costs of setting up a web server with windows 2000 server and sql server 2000 full licences i know that i wouldn't get much change from £8,000.
As I and others like me in this forum are freelance developers the Action Pack would suit our needs. For £199 per year the Action Pack gives you the following software:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition
Microsoft Small Business Server 2000
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
Mobile Information Server 2002 Enterprise Edition with Outlook Mobile Access
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Office XP Professional
Microsoft FrontPage 2002
Microsoft Visio 2002 Enterprise
Microsoft Project 2002 Professional
Microsoft Publisher 2002
Microsoft Outlook 2002

Windows 2003 server and Office 2003 will be sent to you as well.
Being a Freelancer this is well within my budget and will feel relieved that i can now get low cost access to a whole set of tools without turning to illegitimate software.:D

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/sales_and_marketing/actionpack/

[PeOfEo]

Hey, I looked for vb.net on the LAN and didn't see it :(, But I did however get a copy of cute FTP, and 20 episodes of southpark and familyguy :D

[DaiWelsh]

Yes I signed up for this recently too, pity it was just after I bought a couple of licences at full price :( still there were plenty of goodies I had not forked out for :)