Microsoft WebsiteSpark

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Cheryl D Wise

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Sep 25, 2009, 9:47:54 AM9/25/09

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If you are a small company (even a SOHO as long as there are less than 10
folks at your company) for $100 payable when you leave the program (max
participation is 3 years) you get licenses for Expression Studio 1),
Expression Web (2), Visual Studio.NET Pro (not Standard), 4 cpus license for
Windows Web Server, SQL Web and an ASP.NET web hosting control panel that
you can use in production. (So if you want to host your own sites/colocate
you have a production license for that server) plus a listing on the MS site
for potential customers to find you.

Sweet deal, especially since you get support - 2 telephone support
incidents, free training and what they are calling "managed newsgroups". I'm
particularly interested in that last one since to me that means there will
be actual MS support personnel who are paid to respond to posts there.

Beyond the max of 10 employees of the company the only other requirement
that I could find is that you have to add the url of a website you create
using the products that come with WebsiteSpark within 6 months of your
enrollment application being approved. Check out Scott Gu's blogpost on it
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/24/announcing-the-websitespar
k-program.aspx

I've already signed up (and been approved and even have invite codes I can
send out) so we'll see what happens next.