Is the contract for a reasonable length of time 1 to 2 years ? Are you going to be able to develop new skills ? Are you going to be able to develop new contacts they may help in establishing a new business when you leave ms ? Why can't you divert some of your ms income into hiring a replacement to keep the business going ? However I agree with the others that 7 years without serious returns is probably too long. Unless you have developed real IP that is protected or a brand name that could presumably be sold to a competior as an exit strategy ?

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Chris Austin wrote: Also, I though that MS was pretty good about having the developers actualy use their comerical products. Is there a reason (besidees the obvious) why they they moved away from VSS? VSS is fine for small projects, and is used extensively at MS. But SD is used for the larger projects, such as .NET, where they need an "industrial strength" source management system to handle the enormous volume of data, and volume of checkin/checkouts. QRZ? de WAØTTN

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