[thelist] SQL Server 2000 or mySQL?

Michael K. Ahn mike at ahnfire.com
Tue Jul 16 09:49:01 CDT 2002


That may be true, but it would be an uphill battle to convince our CTO
that "Joe", who can ssh through the corporate firewall and directly fix
your server for pennies, is a more attractive choice than the Bill Gates
juggernaut.  Well... not to mention Larry Ellison's baby.

Michael

> MySQL does in fact offer good support.  For a few hundred bucks,
> you can have someone actually ssh into your machine, diagnose a
> problem, reconfigure or rearrange what needs to be done, and you're
> off and running.  MS tech support won't directly touch your
> machine for just about any amount of money.  I worked at a company
> which was spending something like $50k - $100k a year in MS
> support, but it was still hard getting good support on esoteric
> SQL6.5 problems.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kimsal [mailto:michael at tapinternet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:32 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] SQL Server 2000 or mySQL?
>
> Michael K. Ahn wrote:
> > I think the choice comes down to corporate policies and preference.
> > Many companies want someone to be responsible for the support of an
> > application, so it's worth it to pay a few thousand dollars and have
a
> > company like Microsoft available to back an application.
> >
> > Of course, for a personal website, or clients with a cash crunch,
> > nothing beats free.
> >
> > Finally, it depends on your application and your preferred method of
> > programming.  If you want/need certain capabilities through ADO,
etc...
> > that may swing your decision one way or another.
> >
>
>
> MySQL does in fact offer good support.  For a few hundred bucks,
> you can have someone actually ssh into your machine, diagnose a
> problem, reconfigure or rearrange what needs to be done, and you're
> off and running.  MS tech support won't directly touch your
> machine for just about any amount of money.  I worked at a company
> which was spending something like $50k - $100k a year in MS
> support, but it was still hard getting good support on esoteric
> SQL6.5 problems.
>
>
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