http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioTeamSystemAndPricingMyBriefHis...

Discusses the cost not just in dollars but in terms of team pain. Most places do have less than perfect processes for developing and testing code. Does that mean TFS is the only game in town?

Nothing wrong with using Bugzilla or Mantis for Project Management. Even Jira is cheaper.

Also, CVS and Sub version are not perfect but tested in house.

Now I am up at 2 AM looking at posts about TFS costing $1,500 per seat some how.

Here is a screen cast where he goes through the setup of Team Foundation Server (TFS) and creates a Continuous Integration Server connected to it. Something I have noted often is a lot of people set up TFS on a virtual machine. This one uses VMWARE.

http://agileer.com/screencasts/tfsci/Tfsci.html

http://code.google.com/p/sln2scons/source/checkout is supposedly a project that will take a perfectly good sln file and convert to one scons can use. Scons can be found here: http://www.scons.org/

New:

Quiescing is shutting down the services needed. Here is a link to it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950893
"When you are performing Team Foundation Server system servicing, such as installing a service pack or hotfix, the installer disables access to the Team Foundation Server for the duration of the servicing. This is called "quiescing" the server. After completion of the servicing, the server is reenabled, or "unquiesced". "