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You could download ISO's of various operating systems so you could build out a nice set of VM's for testing. You got MS Office Pro, VS Enterprise, SQL Server (dev) and you got access & license keys (for dev, not prod) for all pretty much all MS software. Once upon a time MSDN Universal was the goto product. Also I'd love to try the testing tools (not sure if these come with VS Enterprise or if you need VS Testing or some such). but it's just not worth the price (for a small small company). I'd like to have VS Enterprise (the built in code coverage would be so nice). it would take at least a day or two of soul crushing work.ītw. but if you need to know that two databases are truly the same these tools will tell you that in minutes. Some of the best tools out there for futzing with databases (my god the schema compare and data compare can be life savers). Few things are more moral crushing than having to jump through lots of hoops to spend a thousand bucks, or even two, on a tool that will make your job so much easier. Whichever way you decide make sure you allocate some budget for sundry tools (ndepend, resharper, jira, trello, etc) and/or components.
