----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Burgmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Markus Lervik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: Porting from MS SQL to MySQL


> Hi Markus,
> I'm an IT Consultant by trade and have been involved in lots of green
fields
> projects and conversion projects over the years. Without knowing the
details
> of your situation I will risk giving an opinion.
> 1. If the company has a developed/deployed product DESIGNED to run on MS
SQL
> you can pretty much guarantee they are using every proprietary 'feature'
of
> it and the actual industry standard SQL code is in the minority.
> 2. Given (1), It will be a major effort to undertake a conversion. This is
> the whole point of adding extra 'features' to data base servers, and every
> vendor does it.
> 3. Given (1&2), I think 18K euros wouldn't even cover the scoping and
design
> phases.
>
> So why quote a low ball figure?
>
> In my experience I have found this is often done to get the work in the
> first place. Once you have committed to their product, you will find that
> the price of conversion just keeps going up until you eventually
capitulate
> and accept their product as is.
> Alternatively they naively believe they can do the work and go broke
trying
> to do the conversion on a fixed price contract (I have actually seen one
> software development company go broke this way).
>
> -
> Kind Regards
>
> Richard Burgmann
> Consultant
>
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Markus Lervik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:16 AM
> Subject: Porting from MS SQL to MySQL
>
>
> >
> > Hello all!
> >
> > We've requested a database from different companies, and specifically
> > said we wanted MySQL or PostgreSQL because of the open source angle
> > and we're a library.
> > One company offered MS SQL as the platform and said that they can later
on
> > port it to MySQL. For this they wanted 18 000 euro. Now, what I want to
> know
> > is, how easy is it to port a (fairly complicated) database from MS SQL
to
> > MySQL? It can't be work worth 18 000 euro, now can it?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Markus
> >
> > --
> > Markus Lervik
> > Linux-administrator with a kungfoo grip
> > Vaasa City Library - Regional Library
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > +358-6-325 3589 / +358-40-832 6709
> >
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