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bubberz
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
289 Posts |
 Posted - 2006-07-03 : 14:17:39
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| Just to get some feedback from professionals and other users out there:Why should a company invest the $ into Microsoft products like SQL Server 2005 and use .NET 2.0 over PHP/mySQL or other open source products?For me, I like DTS and what it can do and assist with....which is my biggest pro, but wanted to get some other ideas out there.Thanks! |
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byrmol
Shed Building SQL Farmer
1591 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-03 : 16:35:54
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| Tools (DTS, EM, QA, IDE intergration), support (community and official), ease of use, reliability (SQL Server has been rock solid since v7), integrity support and of course SQL Team...This is not to say that other open source DBMS do not have the above, but SQL Server is pretty hard to bet in those areas...DavidMIntelligent Design is NOT science.A front-end is something that tries to violate a back-end. |
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bubberz
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
289 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-03 : 16:57:53
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| Thanks David!Our company may get bought by another, so I'd like to have some outside opinions on MS suite products. |
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eyechart
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2006-07-03 : 17:55:06
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| it all depends on the skill sets you have internally to support the software you chose. There are many very successful companies right now that have done everything using open source software. Many of them probably would never have been able to do what they have done without using open source software.-ec |
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Why MS products over Open Source