Re: [News] Microsoft's Linux Snub Can Cost It Business

["amicus_curious" <ACDC@xxxxxxx>]

"Erik Funkenbusch" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:03:11 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > Interview: Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | "With Microsoft, we meet them in smaller companies and where the 
> > competition
> > | is happening at the operating system level. If they customer says they 
> > want
> > | one person on Linux, then you can't use SQL Server, of course.”
> > `----
> >
> > http://www.mycustomer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=133420&d=101&h=817&f=816
> >
> > This is either an disadvantage to Microsoft or an illegal advantage. 
> > They lock
> > out competitors.
> Uhh.. what?  He's not seriously pretending you can't have a Linux SQL
> Server client, is he?  That will come as news to many people doing just
> that.
You have to have something in the bag.  For years and years they pretended 
that stored procedures and views weren't needed in a database since you 
could do it all in code in some business logic layer.