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> .NET shops are often so deeply invested in the Microsoft ecosystem Nobody likes MS's SQL License fees, however. If you're going all cloud, then you can't g
by paranoidrobot 6y ago
> .NET shops are often so deeply invested in the Microsoft ecosystem
Nobody likes MS's SQL License fees, however.
If you're going all cloud, then you can't get away with using unlicensed/insufficiently licensed RDS instances.
The delta between Postgres an SQL Server instance pricing per hour doesn't take much to add up to a salary for a mid range DBA.
- c17r 6y agoNo kidding. I remember back in the .NET 4.5 days and SQL Server was per-socket pricing while Oracle and whatnot were per-core. It was an amazing deal. Then SQL Server went per-core and our pricing went up 8-fold. Been using PostgreSQL ever since.
- paranoidrobot 6y agoSQLs socket/core pricing is a pain. We wanted some instances, had to get our hosting provider to dig up previous generation CPU machines so we could have a lower core count. They were like "We'll give you the extra cores for free", Until we explained that it was for SQL License reasons.
- ThePadawan 6y ago> The delta between Postgres an SQL Server instance pricing per hour doesn't take much to add up to a salary for a mid range DBA. I agree with you, leadership didn't shrug. Keeping to as few technologies as possible is a more pricey, but also more conservative choice.