I agree with this answer. Basically, the business strategy MS is employing
is to get you so wrapped into their technology that when they change the
pricing scheme to rip you off, the cost of jumping ship leaves you at their
mercy.
Well guess what: When they want $100K + for licensing, that will buy quite a
few Cache project experts for re-writing our SQL code to run on Cache.
You've heard of the "frog in the kettle" phenomenon, where you can boil a
frog alive if you start Mr. Frog out in a kettle of room-temp water and
sloooly raise the temp up. Well, in this case, MS went from room temp to
steam in about a second and a half. We're jumping out. No more SQL money for
MS, if I have my way. And if they keep it up, we'll start looking at Apache
for our webserver, too...
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
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> Nice price change. Why still use MS SQL? I don't see a good reason
> anymore, except that for existing apps the cost of re-writing stored procs
> and other potentially SQL specific application layers could actually cost
> more than that.
>
> -Cameron
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