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> From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel@kc.rr.com]

> Instead of being an unwitting dup of the M$ marketing group, 
> I prefer to 
> refer to this as "hundred pound" rather than see-sharp!

That may be for the Academic version, but for the rest of us you need to use
the version number of VisualStudio as a multiplier, something around 700?.
This gets amazing close to the full release price of VisualStudio.Net at
$1,079US.  Currently 700? = $1,097.25US.  How many Linux boxes and copies of
GCC can I buy for that price?