I have seen alot of those bills in prior companies that I worked for. I simply think paying that kind of money out, when you have a very talented DBA that you are paying a load of money is a (waste) of money. How often does anyone here come across a problem that they have to call MS on? Exactly!! You are paying $20,000 buckaroos for some nimrod to get on the phone, and tell you this and that, when you could have logged onto CFTALK ;-) and had the answer without being put on hold 10 times while the MS tech researched your problem. Half of the time when you call, you get somebody from a country that you cannot even begin to understand. I honestly believe that if companies like the yahoo and google, who use mySql to run portions of their websites, figure to prove that a whopping $20,000 licence for MS or Oracle just is not worth it. On the same token, CF is going to have to either lower it's price, or suffer from people switching to other less expensive tochnologies. I visited forta.com and found the list of companies that he has posted as using CF has changed quite abit. Just about all of them that I clicked on, were using other technologies. IE... asp & php
Doug B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Munson, Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:42 PM Subject: RE: Converting from SQL to mySql >> Oh yeah, and on the costs issue, don't forget that in addition to the >> staggering cost of MS SQL Server itself, you are also forced to run it >> on a MS OS - which costs another very shiny penny. Cost is certainly a >> factor - and usually the one board members care about the most. > > Strangely, I tend to deal with companies that don't care about the 'MS > tax', no matter how much it is. In fact, they don't trust software that > doesn't come with an expensive support contract. I think most of you > would faint if you saw the size of the annual bill that a lot of large > companies pay to Microsoft. > > > ----------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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. > > ============================================================================== > "EMF <idahopower.com>" made the previous annotations. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:258494 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
