Visual Studio Team System - I'm totally confused
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I work for an IT consulting company and one of the clients we are pursuing is using Visual Studio 2008 Team System. I'm kind of new to Team System. I've used Visual Studio for years, but not the Team System. Currently, we do not have any licenses for Team System. In any case, the pursued client is hosting the Foundation Server and we need to purchase licenses for VSTS 2008. I'm really not sure what we need to buy. I'm particularly confused by this concept of a CAL. According to Microsoft's web site, purchasing a VSTS edition automatically includes a CAL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/cc149003.aspx A Microsoft sales representative said that purchasing a VSTS edition includes 5 CALs. A fellow employee claims that we need to purchase an additional CAL per developer (and this is over and above what VSTS includes). So, a few questions: 1) Do we need to purchase additional CALs or is buying a VSTS sufficient? 2) Do we really get 5 CALs per VSTS? 3) If each copy of VSTS we buy includes a CAL, why would anyone need to buy a CAL separately? Also: The Microsoft sales representative recommended that we buy the licenses from a reseller. I went to the resellers page, added 5 copies of VSTS Developer edition, but there was no volume discount. 4) Why would anyone buy VSTS through a reseller if there was no volume discount? 5) Or did I do something wrong? Finally, just to clarify one point. We (meaning my company) will NOT buy or host the Foundation Server. The client we are pursuing already has Foundation Server and we will be connecting to their server. So, we do not need to buy Foundation Server.