SQL 2000 only. If I buy, can we use old version until we upgrade db?

Info: We must purchase a solution TODAY. It's either aspplayground.NET, or a PHP solution that the company is already familiar with. I'm a .NET developer so obviously I'm pushing for ASPPlayground.NET.
 
Problem: We have only a SQL 2000 database in production.
 
Question: If we buy the current ASPPlayground.NET version today, would we also have access to download and install the old version (2.x) in order that we could use it with our current SQL backend immediately? And later, when we upgrade to SQL 2005, we'd then have the 3.x version of ASPPlayground.NET to migrate to without paying anything more?  If yes to both, we're ready to buy.
 
Thanks.
 

Thanks for your inquiry first. Yes, if you purchase today, you can use V2 first and then upgrade to v3 when you have SQL 2005, without paying additional license fee.

Just make sure you download v2.5.5 Unicode (there are ANSI and Unicode versions for V2)

ASPPlayground.net Developer

Thanks for the quick answer! Is there a chart or other document that details the differences between version 2.x and 3.x?

V2 and V3 are very different.

Here is a short version of what's new in V3. We are going to prepare a more detailed description which will be available in a while.

Also see a development note I posted regarding V2 and V3 (note this article is very old and info may not be totally accurate when I referred to v3 in this article).

ASPPlayground.net Developer

So version 2.4x is same thing as v2.5x but it's classic ASP vs. ASP.NET 1.1? 

Thanks for addressing my questions so quickly.

One more: if we chose to use the classic ASP version, would the upgrade path to 3.x still exist and be seemless?

Yes, as long as you choose 2.4.5 Unicode. 2.4.5 = 2.5.5 in terms of functionalities.

2.4.5 = classic ASP;
2.5.5 = ASP.NET 1.1, and both have ANSI and Unicode versions.

Only the Unicode variant can be upgraded directly to V3.

ASPPlayground.net Developer

Excellent. I've recommended that we proceed with purchase. Thanks again.

Thanks!

ASPPlayground.net Developer