Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Tue Nov 15 01:28:52 CST 2011
Jim, John at all, That's is an interesting discussion. But did you ever try to compare development and support costs of MS SQL + .NET vs. mySQL + ...? I must note I know almost nothing about Linux development tools, but I have worked in the past for a long time on IBM360/370 and PDP11 RSX-11M so JCL, command line, and macro-assembler (especially great for IBM360/370) and PL./1 and and pure C or C++ or Pascal development with file systems or network (CODASYL) or relational databases without rich backend-level data definition and manipulation tool - I have my own experience to evaluate how much time all that development takes... .Now take C# 4.0 (VS2010) + MS SQL with T-SQL with SPs and UDF vs. mySQL + ... - wouldn't MS SQL license costs be covered manifold by higher Linux development and support costs? And I'm not talking/meaning Web site development where becoming standards HTML5 + CSS3 + JavaScript would make Windows and Linux development and support costs comparable(?) I'm talking about development of desktop custom business applications... Thank you. -- Shamil 15 ноября 2011, 08:13 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: > John: > > All I can say is talk to Hans as he has made it his career to work with > Linux systems (about 10 years now) and I am sure he would help in the case > that you ever became completely stuck. > > It is nice of me to volunteer his services like that but he will understand. > ;-) > > To be honest, Linux is not as difficult as it first looks. My next client is > asking for an inexpensive alternative to their current Windows system as the > prices, for the same, have slowly crept beyond their ability to pay. I have > suggested Linux and they are currently reviewing it and so far they have > encounter no real reasons to stay put. (I am paid a flat rate so > implementation will not be any more expensive than the current contract.) > > They have already, cautiously moved their MS Office to Open Office and have > found they had little trouble adjusting. > > Jim > > )