[CLUE-Tech] My transition

[Mike Staver]

I agree, it is dangerous.  That's why I want to move us away from
exchange as soon as possible, but our accountants just love that nifty
little calendar they have with outlook.  I don't know of anything like
that with a linux distro that can be combined with sendmail.  About
visual source safe - I can definitely see us moving to CVS soon enough,
with only 2 developers, this won't be a problem.  It's just going to be
a pain in the you-know-what to move all of our content from VSS to CVS. 
Then there's the toughest issue - our huge productio database.  We don't
want to pay for something like Oracle, which in my opinion, the
licensing is just as insane as with M$ products.  You have to pay per
megahurtz per processor for Oracle.  That's crazy.  So, I would want to
move to something like postgres, but it must be compatible with stored
procs, and all of the current datatypes we use with SQL server. That
would be a huge, huge project, and I just would like to start simple for
now - converting my workstation over, but that's looking like it can't
be done without a huge amount of work converting our servers over first. 

Grant Johnson wrote:
> 
> Since there are only 2 of you, it may be easier just to move everything
> to open published standards.  This will prevent the current vendor
> lock-in and potential vendor extortion problems that you have.
> 
> No, vendor extortion is not too harsh.  If you have a solution that your
> business depends on, and it is available only from one vendor, that
> vendor can charge whatever they want.  This is always a danger with
> unpublished API's and unpublished file formats.
> 
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