So there I was... watching the video over at Channel 9 of RickLaplante describing Visual Studio Team Systems subscriptions and prices...(Rick is the GM of VSTS)
Say we have 15 ... more like 20 developers who work in more than one of the rolesdefined by the price points of VSTS (Dev, Arch, PM,Tester)
We want them to have the full Team Systems suite with MSDN access all integrated into theTeam Systems Server
20 x $8k (roughly) = $160,000 + $2700 (server) = $163,000 investment for the year...*remember, one MSDN sub perdeveloper*
Developers would probably bill ... 1800 hours that year? (estimate) ... which means thatit's going to be a $4.50 per hour investment per developer or 4% of the income frombillable hours...
I think it's worth it... I would bet you that with the newer system, new sourcecontrol, new collaboration, integration into testing/profiling/code coverage... you canEASILY make back that initial setback.
*EDIT: I wonder how the Gold Partner benefits will come into play? *