We have a small project for which we are contracting 3 developers for 3-6 months. Like others in this thread, we did the math on the getting VS Team edition and it just doesn't add up. So, we're doing free editions for most things and "delegating" the Team-only tasks to the developers that have a license to Team edition. This raised the question internally of whether we could rent the software on a short-term basis. No doubt the new licensing scheme will cause MS to loose their percentage of legitimately paying customers who now "share" licenses. We are now spending more time to reconsider why we even need Team edition for the few that have it. Code profiling, unit testing, code analysis, and other team-only features can generally be replaced with much better, cheaper (or even free) options. OK, and then there's the soap box of why they heck MS is differentiating Software Developer, Architect, Tester and Database editions! What about the _most of us_ that are in two or more of these categories!?!? Very frustrating ... but it also presents a good time to reflect on how to cut back on our MS licensing. ;)