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Being that it's Friday, let's shoot some breeze.
I find that a not-too-good explanation.
Web Matrix = 1.1 development
Express SKUs = 2.0 development
That's like saying that VS.NET 2003
would interfere with sales of VS.NET 2005.
Web Matrix will still appeal to ASP.NET 1.1 developers
( although they will soon be a dying breed ) and the Express SKUs
are *only* of interest to ASP.NET 2.0 developers.
What does bug me a bit ( and I made a case against that,
which resulted in VWD getting back the capability ) is that
all the Express SKUs ( with the, now, exception of VWD )
*must* use SSX ( SQL Server Express ) for any database work.
My point of contention is that *adding* support for SSX would have
sufficed, and that killing access to SQL Server 2000 is a mistake.
Marketing works in mysterious ways, I guess.
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