title: What is the cost of coding and deploying asp.net MVC or stackoverflow.com, ASP.NET MVC VS struts,spring
body: <p>I'm wondering what the cost is in tools to work with and deploy a website like stackoverflow with asp.net mvc.</p>
  
  <p>I have just checked and it seems like visual studio professional has suddenly got a lot cheaper, infact almost too good to be true price.</p>
  
  <p>But if they are working with SQL enterprise, the cost of this seems around £10,000 for the enterprise edition?</p>
  
  <p>Or have things with 2008 changed dramatically, so that you can infact deploy something like the workgroup edition for a production environment, and take advantage of the 16GB of Ram that is spoken about on the podcast?</p>
  
  <p>I'm asking this as I am about to start learning asp.net MVC, but I could just as easily put my energy into working with Java, and be less worried about working with a technology that is less likely to be found for forward thinking web apps due to the deployment costs.</p>