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Hi

I'm looking into using TFS in my organisation, there's currently 6 developers, but thats hopefully going to double in the next year or so. Does anybody have links to any good resources/information about it? Or the licensing involved? We are currently a Microsoft Certified Partner.

Also be good to hear feedback from those using it so I can sell it to my boss and colleagues !

 Thanks

 Paddy

Hey Paddy,

Team System Licensing is hard work at the best of times...  

The "retail" scenario would be for you to purchase a TFS License and then make sure you have TFS Client Access Licenses (CALs) for everyone needing to connect to TFS.  You get a TFS CAL included with any Microsoft Visual Studio Team Editions you might have.  If you just all have Visual Studio Professional or Standard then you'll need to purchase CALs.

If you are a certfied partner with ISV competancy then you qualify for a free copy of TFS (you do if you are a Gold Certified Partner as well) and you get a discount off TFS CALs. 

The easiest thing for you to do is probably to contact the MS Ireland licensing team (See http://blogs.msdn.com/irelandlicensing/) and click on the "Email" link at the top of the page.  They are a very friendly bunch and know all the deals to be had (I'm pretty sure you can get good discounts when getting more than 5 of anything at one time from Microsoft).

Cheers,

Martin.

Hi,

 I use TFS in my own work, and while it is a decent source control solution, you could save your business a considerable amount of money by using the open source source control solution, Subversion.  It is extremely widely used.  I use it personally at home, and have been very impressed by it.  You can easily link VS2005 to your Subversion server using a number of add-ins.

 
The only reason that I would be persuaded to use TFS would be in conjunction with VS2005 for Database Professionals, to allow my SQL Server scripts to be incorporated in source control with the solution. 

 
Regards,

Andy.