idiot database flamewars

[Richard Welty]

could you guys kindly please stop it?

i'm no fan of M$, and i like postgresql a lot, but face facts here.
the guy is proposing a major migration of his desktops. no sane
IT shop would simultaneously migrate an entire database
infrastructure. what he needs are working ODBC or JDBC
drivers so the apps on the linux desktops can talk to M$ SQL
Server, nothing more and nothing less. both options should
work; he didn't give enough information about his desktop
App to really suggest which he needed.

PostgreSQL and MySQL may not even meet the needs of
said IT shop, none of you have any idea what their schemas
or SQL look like. i've dabbled in Oracle->PostgreSQL migration
before, and it can be pretty challenging if certain "features"
were used by the Oracle developers.

MS SQL Server-> <some Open Source DB> is likely to be
every bit as challenging, so it's pretty silly to propose it in
this case.

this flame war is a real waste of bandwidth.

sheesh,
  richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty at averillpark.net
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