Why SharePoint Designer Is Now Free
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By now, you've seen all the news about SharePoint Designer being free. I
wanted to give a little color commentary on how it all came to happen and the
lead-up to announcing the news. About 6 months ago, the SharePoint leadership
team got together to talk about the SPD business. We all wanted to grow the
usage of SharePoint as a platform for building applications or customizing the
out of the box applications that we ship such as team sites. One of the pieces
of feedback we continued to hear was that SPD was priced in no man's land, it
wasn't expensive enough to land in with the other designer type of products and
it wasn't cheap enough to make it a non-nuisance buy from a procurement
standpoint. Plus, we didn't want the price of designer to limit the number of
people who would get value from it.
So, we decided to make it free of charge to all SharePoint customers. That's
when the interesting journey began of how to turn something from a product you
pay for into a product you get for free. Many twists and turns later (people
posting the news before we announced it, the product going free on April
1st which is a bad day to announce anything, etc), we landed on
announcing the free product on April 2nd. We're investing a lot in
SPD for the next release so I wouldn't equate the new price with the value
you're going to get. I think you'll be very happy with some of the changes
coming in SPD v.Next. A little too early to say exactly what they are but we've
been aggressively listening to folks who use SPD and those who don't to
understand what we need to deliver.
Enjoy the free product and build some great SharePoint solutions!
didapat dari link ini : http://blogs.msdn.com/thomriz/archive/2009/04/03/sharepoint-designer-is-free-behind-the-scenes.aspx