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I hope this is not true : Infopath should be more freely available

I thought this article was interesting but I hope this statement is incorrect :

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,993289,00.asp

"The other new application Microsoft has been developing as part of the Office System family of products, InfoPath, is also expected to be made available only to those large customers who have a volume licensing agreement with the company as part of the Professional Enterprise release. "

Infopath is a great developer tool and client tool for web services. The equivalent tool from Altova is free. Why not make Infopath a standalone tool, free Office addin or package it with Visual Studio ? As a developer I want to use Infopath, why limit it to big customers ? This seems ridiculous to me.

Update. It appears that Infopath will also be available as a standalone application

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/office/factsheet/OfficeSKUFS.asp

Thanks Mike Gunderloy http://www.larkware.com/

Posted: Apr 02 2003, 08:09 PM by MartinSp | with 3 comment(s)

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Mike Gunderloy said:

The only Office bundle that will include InfoPath is the Enterprise Edition, which is only available under a volume licensing program. However, the article is misleading in saying that's the only way to get InfoPath. It will also be available as a separate boxed product. See http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/office/factsheet/OfficeSKUFS.asp .
# April 2, 2003 6:32 AM

TrackBack said:

La reconnaissance du ventre : C??aC??aC??a
# April 2, 2003 2:09 PM

TrackBack said:

More InfoPath : Phil Scott's WebLog
# April 2, 2003 2:09 PM
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