I would think that large corporations place great value on products whose use adheres to a strict "chain-of-accountability" for performance rather than open source software, which from my limited point-of-view, belongs to no one and, therefore, offers "fuzzy" accountability.
Now, realize, I've used MySQL for years without issue, but I'm also not a large corporation. (*that*'s an understatement! :o) And for those of you who could point to my ignorance as an example of the mind-set of corporate decision-makers who are ultimately accountable for the performance of software and its impact on their company, realize that decision-makers need to work with vendors who can provide software and services that fit within the comfort zone of said corporate decision-makers, not software that *may* be technically superior but lacks an accountable vendor who fits within a "chain-of-accountability". (And this statement isn't in reference to the MySQL / SQL Server debate, as I've never used SQL Server) As a corporate head, would I trust my IT staff, programmers, etc., even if they knew better than I (which I would certainly hope they do), to each do what they thought was best concerning what software and vendors my department would do business with, when my job would be on the line for their decisions? Not a chance... If the buck stops here, then all decisions run through here. And I doubt than anyone on this list, who has anyone working for them, simply trusts all decisions they make without oversight and approval of their practices and software in use. It's just the nature of business, it seems, that big businesses like working with big businesses. Less efficient? perhaps... More costly? perhaps... more comforting? probably... Sleeping soundly at night is worth a lot of money... Just some thoughts... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:schneeg...@internetique.com] Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 11:14 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Stung by HostMySite price increase? >>Most of the companies I work for INSIST on *everything* Microsoft because in their eyes, *only* Microsoft is suitable for stuffed shirt corporate work. True, And IMHO the only reason is the incompetence of managers. The bigger the organization is, the higher the decision maker is, And the higher the decision maker is, the less he knows about software tools and hardware. Finally, the more incompetent he is, the more he needs to protect himself in case of any trouble. So, if he can say "I chose Micosoft for software, the biggest in the world, and IBM for hardware, the biggest of the world..." he thinks he cannot be wrong. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:326068 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
