[lug] SQL Server

[Bruce Yelen]

At one time, MS SQL Server was indeed the same as Sybase.  About 5-6 years
ago, Microsoft and Sybase agreed to go their separate ways and the products
have diverged.

By the way, did you know that Sybase has a Linux version available of
Adaptive Server?  I believe a free download is still available from their
web site (www.sybase.com).

Regards,

Bruce

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]  On
Behalf Of Andrew Gilmore
Sent:	Wednesday, December 29, 1999 3:25 PM
To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject:	Re: [lug] SQL Server

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't (Microsoft) SQL Server an offshoot of
Sybase?

Andrew


On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 12:32:07PM -0700, Bruce Yelen wrote:
> I'd suggest looking at Sybase.  Adaptive Server Enterprise is the
> "heavy-duty" offering (available for NT, Solaris, etc).  A more
> lightweight database would be Adaptive Server Anywhere.  Take a look at
> their website "WWW.SYBASE.COM"
>
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Kyle Moore wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for ammo.
> >
> > We are just starting to use the web in a big way and there is a move to
> > use SQL Server on NT. One of our companies was using SQL Server when we
> > bought them and some of our programmers are in love with Microsoft and
> > VB so the default database just sort of happened. I was wondering if
> > anyone has seen a page on the web somewhere that would give reasons
> > other choices would be better. The biggest drawback to SQL Server in my
> > opinion is that it only runs on NT. At least the people that want to use
> > ColdFusion aren't locking us into NT.
> >
> > The database that our corporate data sits on is Universe. I know, nobody
> > has ever heard of it. It is actually a great database...legacy style but
> > can handle some heavy stuff. Thank god all of this is on UNIX. We also
> > use MySQL for a few small web apps I have written for internal use and
> > our web-based Helpdesk runs on it too.
> >
> > I would just like to prevent us becoming too locked into products that
> > only run on one platform. I prefer solutions to run on any platform we
> > have. I know SQL pretty well but don't know enough about SQL Server to
> > be able to confidently point out shotcomings.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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