RE: Countering Microsoft - Susan Ator - com.mysql.lists.mysql

7 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRE: Countering Microsoft

From	Sent On	Attachments
Michael T. Babcock	15 May 2003 09:07
David Shugarts	15 May 2003 10:27
Susan Ator	15 May 2003 10:43
Peter Lovatt	15 May 2003 10:54
John Griffin	15 May 2003 13:38
Michael T. Babcock	15 May 2003 13:42
Peter Monk	15 May 2003 18:25

Subject:	RE: Countering Microsoft
From:	Susan Ator (SAt...@npr.org)
Date:	05/15/2003 10:43:50 AM
List:	com.mysql.lists.mysql

The one thing which springs to my mind immediately is the reason we have moved our user login information from MS SQL Server 7 to MySQL. We can encrypt any field we want to in MySQL. Oh, it's also free. Ah, we don't have to run it on Windows. We could if we *wanted* to but we don't. We *can't* run MS SQL Server 7 on our RedHat box, though.

-----Original Message----- From: Michael T. Babcock [mailto:mbab...@fibrespeed.net] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:08 PM To: mys...@lists.mysql.com Subject: Countering Microsoft

This is a bit off-topic, so please don't flame me, but I'm sure most people on this list won't mind.

I'm going to the Canadian Oil-Heat Association meeting in the first week of June to help promote one of my clients' Linux-based database products. The primary reason they are paying my way is that one of their competitors is bringing along a Microsoft evangelist to promote their new MS-based database product.

If anyone has good information I can use during the open-floor time at this presentation to help debunk the "Microsoft is better because we have the .NET platform backing us" argument (and others like it), I'd be very interested in hearing them.

My many near-sincere appologies to the pro-MS people on the list and those who feel this isn't quite MySQL related :-).

If anyone feels they need to know, they can ask for the names and URLs of the companies mentionned above, but I'll leave them out of this to avoid looking overly commercial about it.