Further the University also plans to customize its ERP software and automate processes through its internal LOB applications.

“Example 1: A University wants to use Visual Studio Community 2013 for training students enrolled in the “Data structures and Programming” course and for a “Big Data” academic research project that requires building a cross-platform mobile application.

In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.” ( source)

For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community.

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

“Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.Internally it is Visual Studio Professional 2013 with Update 4 (that normally costs $499) excluding SharePoint, Office, LightSwitch and Cloud Business Applications from the installer, but now is free for non-enterprise organizations. Yesterday Microsoft released a new Visual Studio 2013 edition – Visual Studio Community 2013:

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