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by mistermann 5592 days ago
>You are in FANTASY LAND if you think you would be paying a "couple grand" in licensing to scale out to what Stack Overflow must need to run its service. Add about 3 more zeros to that guess-timate.

Couple grand = $2000 Add 3 more zeros: $2,000,000

Stackoverflow is paying $2 million in software licensing fees! Wow, using the Microsoft stack is expensive!!