SPLA licensing is very affordable. There are no SPLA licenses for many 3rd party products so staying with Microsoft is actually cheaper if you are a service provider.
---- Robert E. Spivack VP Sales & Marketing Voicegateway.com Web Services / SPIV Technologies Group (408) 834-8560 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 11:21 PM To: Robert E. Spivack Subject: Re[4]: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Clustering solution > An advantage of using Microsoft Database Mirroring is that you can > remain on a 100% Microsoft supported solution. Sure, but for the cost, you can have a full-time NSI engineer instead (who by necessity and experience knows their supported MS apps like the back of her/his hand). Many 24/7 enterprises leave the PSS fine print behind to use third-party clustering solutions that better fit their needs. Bottom line is you have to do your homework in all areas to be able to support geoclusters or local clusters. [Also, to be frank about these things, there's nothing forcing you divulge an underlying clustering scenario to PSS. There's a difference between trying to fool them into a wild goose chase, and knowing from experience -- and comparison with a cluster-free lab -- that an issue is 99.999% likely to be observed even if the cluster is taken down and uninstalled, and thus acting in good faith in concentrating on the issue at hand.] > I'd be curious to hear if Sandy or anyone has compared db mirroring > to double-take and other solutions that made sense before this > feature was available but may be less desirable now. I haven't, mostly due to the cost, but also because I more often find myself clustering apps that wouldn't apply (Sybase, Exchange, nonupgradeable MSSQL 2000, mailbox storage back ends and filesystems, MySQL, and so on). Someday, if somebody's really running the table with MS products and has overflowing pockets, I'd be interested in looking into it. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/rel ease/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/dow nload/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/downloa d/release/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
