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.