Great article. The decision to support anything new in the enterprise infrastructure space, given that you'll often be asked to support it for (literally) deca

Great article. The decision to support anything new in the enterprise infrastructure space, given that you'll often be asked to support it for (literally) decades, is non-trivial even when you only have one platform to worry about. But especially when the second (or nth) platform in question has very different end-user expectations for usage conventions, documentation, scriptability, etc...it takes a very special partner opportunity (or end-customer so huge that it might as well be a partner opportunity) to make it worth pulling the trigger. Databases in particular strike me as poor candidates, because the space is so hotly contested by organizations capable of research-class CS and deep optimization. So of all the things you might port to a new platform, MS SQL Server (a platform in itself) represents an enormous risk.