> From my experience, if you don't specify "MSSQL" on your page of > hosting packages, Windows developers aren't interested. When you > suggest MySQL or Postgres, they shake their head saying they want > MSSQL.
I'd say that's their problem - if they can't see beyond MSSQL they probably won't see beyond IIS either and will stick with a Windows Hosting package anyway. Not really enough reason to start writing a SQL Server clone as there are already enough choices of RDBMS's on *nix out there. From embedded to industrial strength. As for the middleware - did you look at NHibernate and similar persistance solutions. That way you can isolate your code from the RDBMS. There is plenty of choice already - why re-invent the wheel ??? I'd say spend your effort improving existing projects rather than create yet another database or persistance layer. Cheers, Leo Adelaide, South Australia _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
