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Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by NDizzle on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:31PM (#9972351)
What about licenses for developers to develop software to run on that server? What about licenses for things like deployment software and Microsoft-centric VCS? What kind of database are you going to run? MS-SQL?

To paraphrase the toy story meme at the bottom of the article - SOFTWARE LICENSES. SOFTWARE LICENSES EVERYWHERE.

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Re:On how Jet.com chose F# by cc81 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:57PM (#9972475)
I would suspect that they are gold partners and therefore get MSDN licences for all their devs and TFS for free.
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