SQL Server beats the hell out of MySQL 4453

I don't think that is the case at all. My observation has been that unix sysadmins are usually part of a company's overhead and so are always on the cost Debt Reduction bubble. By purchasing linux servers on Intel processors instead of budgeted Unix powered RISC systems, they are able to show an improved operating efficiency in an environment that rarely looks beyond simple cost ratios. So linux has made a home in the non-critical applications where it is administered identically to unix but has costs comparable to Windows servers. That has been the entry point for linux and in some cases it has grown from there, but the linux suppliers seem to have feet of clay and are wont to promote their traditional unix solutions as superior to the linux solutions that they constatly cast into the "economy" role.

Well, it was the IBM support for linux that sparked the whole trend and got the ball rolling, but the gains for linux were at the expense of traditional unix and there isn't much more of that ore in the mine, ray. The next two years should pretty much show who is the meat and who is the potatoes.

Wello, if you have a big contract, surely you can work a deal, ray, that has always been the case. But not in the day to day stuff.

It just goes to show how people cannot be wrong all of the time, ray! LOL!!!