Microsoft Visual Studio Deployment Standard 2013 Academic

To use the Release Management solution in Visual Studio 2013, you must acquire licenses for the following:

1. Each person using the Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013 for creating, updating, or deleting a release pipeline sequence must be licensed for either Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN, Visual Studio Premium with MSDN, Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN, or MSDN Platforms.
2. Each person triggering the release pipeline sequence must be licensed with a Team Foundation Server CAL. However, a Team Foundation Server CAL is not required to approve stages or to sign off on a release.
3. Each node or endpoint to which an application is being deployed must be licensed with one of these two Visual Studio Deployment offerings:
- Visual Studio Deployment Standard 2013
- Visual Studio Deployment Datacenter 2013

Visual Studio Deployment Standard 2013
Ideal for...
Low density or non-virtualized environments

Licensing Model
Processor-based license with each license covering two physical processors and up to two endpoints (virtual machines) per license on either private or public cloud