Microsoft Bashing

M$ SQL Server slips

CRN (via Slashdot) has an interesting article that talks about M$ SQL Server slipping to 2005:

The slippage of Microsoft SQL Server into 2005 is no trivial matter to solution providers.

This database, code-named Yukon, has slipped so much it's becoming "a credibility issue," said one East Coast solution provider who requested anonymity, as did several other interviewed for this story.

A West Coast Microsoft partner agreed, and said the continued and serious slippages out of Redmond are casting a favorable light on open source development as an alternative model.

Ahhh, it feels good to see M$ screw up. My friend Jeff Simmons and I were talking about the opportunity that Linux had when NT5.0 (which became Win 2000) slipped out to a 2000 release date. Sure enough, Linux gained serious momentum in that timeframe as people realized that supporting M$ is too expensive and no longer viable. I see the same thing happening with open source databases: MySQL and PostgreSQL are both good databases -- they have their strengths and weaknesses. For the area of the market that M$ SQL is tartgeting, PostgreSQL is a damn good replacement.

You know, I've been very happy with PostgreSQL for the last 1.5 years. And the amazing thing is that with each update it gets faster. And usually not trivially faster -- I'm continually amazed.

Posted by Mayhem at March 15, 2004 02:48 PM