On 11/02/2007, at 10:47 AM, gspurge wrote:
Peter Machell wrote:
The expectation that software houses should be ready to support a
system that has many radical changes in it immediately on release
is not realistic - and not much different than demanding a Mac or
Linux client, after all they've had plenty of time with these
systems to test them, and probably more immediate potential
customers than with Vista.
Hi Peter,
Is the expectation that software houses that that use MSDE, develop
products that will use SQL Server Express Edition that unrealistic.
That would appear to be the crucial point here. That was launched
November 2005 and it has been well publicised that Vista would not
support MSDE.
By all means let businesses wait and see if they wish to
incorporate Vista. I don't think you can tell that they can't.
I don't think it's up to the user to dictate the database engine, but
I do think that a clever house will produce a structure that isn't
tied to a single engine. MS has them by the balls - if they want to
move to the next DB they probably need to pay a small fortune for the
next version of Visual Mouse Programming Studio for Dummies.
Just like the OS - if it was actually a good product there wouldn't
be the need for all these wholesale changes causing mass disruption.
Look how far OS/X has come since 2000 - we're about to see the sixth
major release, each of which you can install in a lunch hour with
compatibility issues being extremely rare.
Chose platforms and programmes with a solid base, and your
improvements can come in small steps, not giant leaps of faith.
cheers,
Peter.
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