On Wednesday 28 March 2007 07:56, Michael Christie wrote: > The main reason we haven't installed a backup spare server is the cost > of the SQL licence in our case Gupta SQL. The licence costs a couple of > thousand dollars in itself. This is in addition to the hardware, and > installation etc etc.
Once again an excellent reason why to put the thumb screws onto vendors to allow FOSS SQL servers, eg Firebird (as Argus does), MySQL or PostgreSQL. Especially the latter is very mature, and beats most commercial offerings (Bar perhaps Oracle) in terms of features, scalability an reliability Most FOSS SQL servers nowadays allow replication in either peer or master-slave mode, or database shadowing - which wold allow people to have a stand-by server with *CURRENT* data without needing to restore a backup when the primary server caught fire - and all at zero license costs, zero restrictions re number of seats, connections, users etc. I for my part can only wonder at the stupidity of sticking with MS SQL and paying through the nose for something that can be had MUCH better for free Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
