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The Future is Looking Good

As I've previously mentioned, as of October 1st 2008 MSDN subscribers who have previously only had access to Visual Studio Team System Development Edition can now also use Database Edition. The reasoning behind this move has now been made clear thanks to the January MSDN Subscription Newsletter:

In the next release of Visual Studio Team System we will be merging the feature sets of the Development Edition and the Database Edition into a single product. The new product will include all of the features in the Development Edition and the Database Edition as well as new capabilities delivering even more value in a single product. This will provide a more complete set of capabilities for building software in today’s data-driven environments. Bringing these two feature sets together enables you to take advantage of the core tools for application development as well as the necessary tools for database development, including performance profiling, code analysis, code metrics, code coverage, database refactoring, Schema Compare, Data Compare, and more

Looks like they've finally got the message that a large proportion of developers still need to touch the database, and as a result will be combining the Developer and Database editions of VSTS in the next version. Now if only they could get rid of the comparatively useless Architect edition. Roll on VS 2010!