On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0200, Markus Lervik wrote: > > Hello all! > > We've requested a database from different companies, and > specifically said we wanted MySQL or PostgreSQL because of the open > source angle and we're a library. > > One company offered MS SQL as the platform and said that they can > later on port it to MySQL. For this they wanted 18 000 euro. Now, > what I want to know is, how easy is it to port a (fairly > complicated) database from MS SQL to MySQL? It can't be work worth > 18 000 euro, now can it?
That's a bit strange. If the app is built with MySQL in mind, porting it should be very, very easy. But if they're going to build the app with MySQL in mind anyway, it doesn't make much sense to do so on a platform other than MySQL, does it? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 15 days, processed 362,696,624 queries (268/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
