----- Original Message ----- From: "j.urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tony Buckley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 4:10 PM Subject: Re: Porting from MS SQL to MySQL
> > Unless they are saying they doubt that mySQL is upto, it so it's no good > > quoting. They may have a room full of SQLServer people twiddling their > > thumbs in which case I agree with you, they are not bucking for the customer > > here. On the other hand they have very real doubts that mySQL is upto the > > job; they may be wrong on this last point, but at least they are being > > honest in their beliefs. Who knows! > > This doesn't make much sense. If they're being honest and they believe > MySQL can't handle it, why would they offer to port it to MySQL for 18,000 > euro? > I don't know. Perhaps they are offering not just to port to mySQL but redesign the bits that they believed made an impractical initial mySQL installation. Perhaps 'impractical' because of time and MSSQL would be faster. Perhaps impractical because the CEO is shagging the marketing manager of MSSQL and didn't want to upset her. We don't know!!! My point is that the originator of the question didn't seem to have a clear idea of what was being offered for E18k but that could be an entirely reasonable bid for the work and application required. Just because it looks like a 'big number' doesn't mean that isn't what it will cost. All of a bit of a futile argument really without knowing a lot more. Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
