Hi Ciprian,
Well, I guess you just need to ask yourself a few questions:
Is this an important project?
Is scaleability important?
Is good security important?
Is stability important?
If you answered 'yes' to any of these, and any of them are mission-critical, then
Microsoft products in general are not the way to go. Why use an OS that's *renowned*
for it's poor security and stability? (read the news...)
Also, MS-SQL does not scale well. If it did, Microsoft would probably use it for their
big databases. They don't.
MySQL on any of the popular flavours of Unix (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, BSD, etc...) is
infinitely superior.
... I may be opinionated, but at least they're MY opinions. :>
All the best. Good luck,
/Rob
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>Hi,
>
>I would need some reasons for choosing MySQL instead of Microsoft SQL. (beside the
>fact that MySQL is free). (not for me but for my boss).
>
>It may sound silly but trust me I really need these reasons. So please help me with
>this.
>
>Thanks,
>Ciprian A.
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