[thelist] SQL Server 2000 or mySQL?

Michael Kimsal michael at tapinternet.com
Tue Jul 16 10:26:01 CDT 2002


Michael K. Ahn wrote:
> Hehe.  Well... never said CTO's were smart.  ;)  I wonder if we'll ever
> hit a corporate malfeasance (sp?) case for negligent CTO's and
> "creative" IT practices.  I've seen instances of a lot of wasted money.
> Although... not that I should complain.
>
> I didn't mean pennies literally.  Just pennies compared to Microsoft or
> some other commercial support.
>
I know - I wasn't shouting at you or anything.

I'm not suggesting that everyone should always use MySQL
in all cases, but I've run into more than a few clients who've
purchases SQL2000 Enterprise because it 'sounded important'
when Access or MySQL would have been overkill.






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