Re: [firebird-support] Sizing conversion project

2012-01-21 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello, Let me share some thoughts which are not related with email below, but inspired by it (as a consequence of long time thoughts and overview of our experience) First, I need to say that many IT managers and developers suffer from the try to use a bigger gun inferiority complex (for those

Re: [firebird-support] Sizing conversion project

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
Hello, Let me share some thoughts which are not related with email below, but inspired by it (as a consequence of long time thoughts and overview of our experience) First, I need to say that many IT managers and developers suffer from the try to use a bigger gun inferiority complex (for

Re: [firebird-support] Sizing conversion project

2012-01-21 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hello Thomas, Thanks for comments! If IT managers have been money, they will spend it, usually to bring them out in respect to liability. They simply want to call Microsoft, Oracle if something bad happens with their DBMS. ;-) I used to sit near technical support team in Microsoft, including

Re: [firebird-support] Sizing conversion project

2012-01-21 Thread Milan Babuskov
Rick Debay wrote: We are using Firebird and I've been tasked with determining the costs for migrating to MS SQL Server. The last time I used the latter was ten years ago, and in the role of a Java programmer. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to come up with rough time and cost

Re: [firebird-support] Sizing conversion project

2012-01-21 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 21-1-2012 15:46, Milan Babuskov wrote: What programming language/libraries are used? It's easier to make a switch if you use Java application than if you use IBPP C++ library for example. Java might require a simple reconfiguration, while C++ would require rewrite of database access layer.