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They're fairly tightly integrated into the MS stack and it'd be an incredible undertaking to migrate to anything else.
by jonursenbach 15y ago
They're fairly tightly integrated into the MS stack and it'd be an incredible undertaking to migrate to anything else.
- th5 15y agoyou would think MS would cut them a super deal on licensing, being that S.O. is such a major site utilizing and promoting their platform, (and its demographics match who they'd want to promote to). If S.O. goes down or has problems due to a SQL server issue like this, (or them not affording another license) that looks pretty bad.
- dan_b 15y agoI believe Joel said that software licenses were a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.
- bunderbunder 15y agoI'm inclined to agree. If you have to spend any time at all figuring out how to fit the cost of a SQL Server license into your business plan, that's the entrepreneurial equivalent of a code smell.
- justincormack 15y agoNot sure MS cares enough about SQL server. They would probably throw money at them to move to Azure though.