Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 10:11:26 CST 2011
I have moved to MySQL for medium-to-large DBs and to SQLite for small DBs. See ya, BillG and SteveB. I'm gone, reluctantly so, since I have spent the last dozen or so years mastering MS-SQL, which I now realize was a complete waste of time and energy. From now on, I'm going open-source solutions, and I'm about to bolt from the whole Windows "solution" in favour of Ubuntu and|or Mint (a fork from Ubuntu). Currently I run both these OSs as VMs inside Oracle/Sun VirtualBox. but I am about to flip the whole system so the basic boot is into Ubuntu and any Windows/Access sessions will be dealt with in a VM. So long, Steve and Bill. It's been a slice, but I'm done with you guys. You don't make life better; you only make it more expensive. And as a semi-retired person, expenses matter significantly.I just calculated December and realized that at the end of the day (after rent, hydro, net connection etc.) I have a whopping $15 left for the whole month of December. Wow. Party hearty. Not that I'm complaining. Were it not for our alleged socialist government, I wouldn't receive so much as a dime; so I count myself in the set of Lucky MoFus. Arthur On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Mark Simms <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote: > John - I think it's a poor strategy on Microsoft's part. > IMHO: They should position themselves price-wise BETWEEN the > ever-so-expensive Oracle and the ever-so-cheap MySQL. > Instead, they appear to be moving towards trying to compete with Oracle... > This is so "Balmer-like". > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd- > > bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 9:27 AM > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; Sqlserver-Dba > > Subject: [AccessD] New SQL Server license scheme is RADICALLLY more > > expensive > > > > http://sqlserverperformance.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/sql-server-2012- > > licensing-and-hardware-considerations/ > > > > The full retail license cost per physical core is $6874.00 for SQL > > Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. > > > > I cannot imagine that there will not be a huge backlash about this from > > clients and massive > > switching to MySQL and the likes. > > > > I know that I will never purchase SQL Server 2010. > > > > -- > > John W. Colby > > Colby Consulting > > > > Reality is what refuses to go away > > when you do not believe in it > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Cell: 647.710.1314 Thirty spokes converge on a hub but it's the emptiness that makes a wheel work -- from the Daodejing