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Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by utnick on Sunday September 21, 2008 @09:28PM (#310722)
Visual studio express editions are free and a windows vps is cheap.

Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.

Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by anthonyrubin on Sunday September 21, 2008 @10:51PM (#310763)
During one of the podcasts I believe Jeff stated that he was able to get free copies of the most expensive version of Visual Studio from a friend at MS.
Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by anthonyrubin on Sunday September 21, 2008 @10:51PM (#310764)
How much would SQL Server licenses cost?
Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With? by icey on Monday September 22, 2008 @12:28AM (#310824)
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx