Team System Software Topology

There are two important divisions in the Team System software universe:

1. Client
2. Server

The server product is called Team Foundation Server and provides the backbone of the Team System. An example of what it provides would be Source Control.

The client products are different flavours of Visual Studio 2005 based on roles
within the project team.

1. Team System Explorer
• This tool is bundled along with Team Foundation Server and is
  intended for non-techies to access things like work items.
2. Visual Studio Team Suite
• The uber-product that contains everything for all roles
3. Visual Studio for Architects
• Intended for Architects but really just seems to be a weaker version
  of Team Suite (which is what all the Architects will want).
4. Visual Studio for Developers
• Intended for Developers with a decent range of features for
  developing software within Team System.
5. Visual Studio for Testers
• Intended for Testers with some interesting testing features.
6. Visual Studio for Database Professionals
• Intended for Database Developers with some special features within
  the IDE specific to databases. Still no T-SQL intellisense,
  though

There you have it! We are hoping to get a hold of Team Suite for our evaluation but we may have to settle for Developer since that's all we can get a hold of. The DVD trial ordering site on ms.com says Team Suite is back-ordered and there is no download offered.