Difference Between Enterprise And Enterprises

What's missing in Visual Studio Community 2015? They say it's full-featured and free, but if that's the case, then why do/will they still sell Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 or Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 for 6 grand?

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Something is missing in the Community preview, right? And why is it called 'Community'? My code won't be synced across your devices like the new Windows 10 update system is, will it? (Kind of joking about that last part, and kind of not, too).

Small enterprises and their validity Sometimes called a small business, a small enterprise is a business that employs a small number of workers and does not have high volume of sales. In technical terms, it is an independently owned and operated company that is limited in size and in revenue depending on the industry. People can form different types of enterprises (business organizations), such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. So a corporation is simply one type of business enterprise. The distinguishing features of a corporation are (1) in order to be a corporation, a business enterprise must obtain a charter from the government. Small enterprises and their validity Sometimes called a small business, a small enterprise is a business that employs a small number of workers and does not have high volume of sales. In technical terms, it is an independently owned and operated company that is limited in size and in revenue depending on the industry.

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Check the following: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/Visual studio community is free version for students and other academics, individual developers, open-source projects, and small non-enterprise teams (see 'Usage' section at bottom of linked page). While VSUltimate is for companies. You also get more things with paid versions!

There are 2 major differences.

1. Technical
2. Licensing

Technical, there are 3 major differences:

First and foremost, Community doesn't have TFS support.
You'll just have to use git (arguable whether this constitutes a disadvantage or whether this actually is a good thing).
Note: This is what MS wrote. Actually, you can check-in&out with TFS as normal, if you have a TFS server in the network. You just cannot use Visual Studio as TFS SERVER.

Second, VS Community is severely limited in its testing capability.
Only unit tests. No Performance tests, no load tests, no performance profiling.

Third, VS Community's ability to create Virtual Environments has been severely cut.

On the other hand, syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, Step-Through debugging, GoTo-Definition, Git-Integration and Build/Publish are really all the features I need, and I guess that applies to a lot of developers.

For all other things, there are tools that do the same job faster, better and cheaper.

If you, like me, anyway use git, do unit testing with NUnit, and use Java-Tools to do Load-Testing on Linux plus TeamCity for CI, VS Community is more than sufficient, technically speaking.

Licensing:

A) If you're an individual developer (no enterprise, no organization), no difference (AFAIK), you can use CommunityEdition like you'd use the paid edition (as long as you don't do subcontracting)
B) You can use CommunityEdition freely for OpenSource (OSI) projects
C) If you're an educational insitution, you can use CommunityEdition freely (for education/classroom use)
D) If you're an enterprise with 250 PCs or users or more than one million US dollars in revenue (including subsidiaries), you are NOT ALLOWED to use CommunityEdition.
E) If you're not an enterprise as defined above, and don't do OSI or education, but are an 'enterprise'/organization, with 5 or less concurrent (VS) developers, you can use VS Community freely (but only if you're the owner of the software and sell it, not if you're a subcontractor creating software for a larger enterprise, software which in the end the enterprise will own), otherwise you need a paid edition.

The above does not consitute legal advise.
See also:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/262916/understanding-visual-studio-community-edition-license

Visual Studio Community is same (almost) as professional edition. What differs is that VS community do not have TFS features, and the licensing is different. As stated by @Stefan.

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The different versions on VS are compared here - https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/compare-visual-studio-2015-products-vs

All these answers are partially wrong.

Microsoft has clarified that Community is for ANY USE as long as your revenue is under $1 Million US dollars. That is literally the only difference between Pro and Community. Corporate or free or not, irrelevant.

Even the lack of TFS support is not true. I can verify it is present and works perfectly.

EDIT: Here is an MSDN post regarding the $1M limit: MSDN (hint: it's in the VS 2017 license)

EDIT: Even over the revenue limit, open source is still free.

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Enterprise forms the economic backbone of a nation. It is the businesses or trade that produces a nation's wealth and status. Enterprises can be owned by two factions: the public or private citizens. Though there are fundamental differences between the two, some enterprises benefit by being publicly owned and others by being privately held.

Public Enterprise

A public enterprise is an enterprise or business that the public, often the government, controls. Since the government is an agent of the people, or public, ownership by the government is the ultimate form of public ownership, particularly in a democratic nation. In theory, you and every other citizen have an ownership interest in a government-owned or controlled public company. This is not limited to federal governments; locally owned or controlled enterprises, such as municipal water and sewer companies, are also public enterprises. The government has the final say on the directors of the enterprise and major policy decisions. Any profits are either invested back into the company, or they go to the government.

Private Enterprise

A private enterprise is one that private citizens own or control. This can be anything from sole ownership to large publicly traded corporations. Rather than the government, the owners choose the board of directors of a private enterprise, and profits distributed among the owners or shareholders. The government has no direct say in the running of the enterprise. This type of enterprise is also known as free enterprise.

Joint Ventures

Many large concerns that affect the public are joint ventures between the public and private sectors. Enterprises that require a large amount of start-up capital but that will not show a lot of short-term income are the type of enterprises that fit this definition. Joint technology initiatives, where the government invests significant capital into a private corporation in return for use of the technology in military and government applications, are one example.

Public Pros/Cons

Public ownership and control is beneficial in enterprises that are too big and important to society to allow for the development of significant competition. These types of enterprises, such as utilities or transit systems, cannot operate with a high degree of profit to operate effectively or require huge amounts of cash to start without a large return. These types of enterprises do not interest most investors, but society would struggle to function without them. Government, since it operates for the benefit of the public and not under a profit motive, will take the responsibility for these enterprises. It has the ability to fund any shortfalls with tax money, so the enterprises will not fail, and society’s needs are securely met. However, since there is no competition, there is no urgent need for these enterprises to innovate or cater to consumer desires. This increases the potential for inefficiency.

Private Pros/Cons

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Private enterprises are driven by competition in the free market and the reach for greater profits. They are forced to innovate and to keep the consumer happy or risk going out of business. Since it must be profitable, a private enterprise must maximize efficiency, which eventually trickles down to lower prices for consumers. Competition and the drive for efficiency promote innovation and the development of new technologies. However, the motivation to earn profits sometimes encourages enterprises to choose profit over societal concerns such as safety, health or ethical concerns. In its worst form, short-term profit takes precedence over long-term interests.