> I'm a *big* fan of MySQL, on any platform, but license cost savings > alone shouldn't drive you to the conversion.
What about if you're using an outdated version of MSSQL, and you'd have to pay $20,000 to upgrade to 2005? I'd be inclined to look around for cheaper DBs. As far as community vs. enterprise versions, I think support contracts exist purely to make CIO/CTO types feel warm and fuzzy. In my experience, it's a LOT cheaper to pay the one time support fee when you need to (once a year in my case) than to 'subscribe' just so that you have a direct line to $4/hr support techs in India. And any extra features you get with the enterprise version are usually either unimportant, or easily replaced by free 3rd party tools. And in RedHat's case, you get a complete replacement of RHEL if you use CentOS. --------------- "EMF <idahopower.com>" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ============================================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258457 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
