Comments on: MySQL Officially Declared Microsoft SQL Server Compeditor http://www.coderjournal.com/2008/08/mysql-officially-declared-microsoft-sql-server-compeditor/ while(!(succeed = try())); Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:30:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nick Berardi http://www.coderjournal.com/2008/08/mysql-officially-declared-microsoft-sql-server-compeditor/comment-page-1/#comment-12627 Nick Berardi Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:11:05 +0000 http://www.coderjournal.com/?p=265#comment-12627 For the first point I said _starting_ to take the Web 2.0 crowd seriously. To understand this you have to understand how marketing works in large corporations. Right now Microsoft SQL Server has an eye on the Web 2.0 market and one of the first steps they can make is to start comparing them selves to the market leader. Namely MySQL. You are actually doing MySQL a disservice by comparing it to SQL Express. Because SQL Express is a free, limited, small-time, SQL engine, that has most of the capabilities of its big brother, but not enough to be used in major production environments. Is that really what you want to compare MySQL too? Plus this ad wasn't to downplay and demerit MySQL in the eyes of MS SQL users, it was to elevate MS SQL in the eyes of MySQL users. Plus as an added bonus comparing MySQL to SQL Server 2008 not only elevates MySQL in the eyes of the monolithic providers, but it also elevates SQL Server 2008 in eyes of the "cloud developers". Because this is going to force MySQL to respond, and in that response they are giving creditability to MS SQL. It is actually a brilliant move and will probably help both companies in areas they have been lacking. For the first point I said _starting_ to take the Web 2.0 crowd seriously. To understand this you have to understand how marketing works in large corporations. Right now Microsoft SQL Server has an eye on the Web 2.0 market and one of the first steps they can make is to start comparing them selves to the market leader. Namely MySQL.

You are actually doing MySQL a disservice by comparing it to SQL Express. Because SQL Express is a free, limited, small-time, SQL engine, that has most of the capabilities of its big brother, but not enough to be used in major production environments. Is that really what you want to compare MySQL too? Plus this ad wasn’t to downplay and demerit MySQL in the eyes of MS SQL users, it was to elevate MS SQL in the eyes of MySQL users.

Plus as an added bonus comparing MySQL to SQL Server 2008 not only elevates MySQL in the eyes of the monolithic providers, but it also elevates SQL Server 2008 in eyes of the “cloud developers”. Because this is going to force MySQL to respond, and in that response they are giving creditability to MS SQL. It is actually a brilliant move and will probably help both companies in areas they have been lacking.

]]> By: Carl J http://www.coderjournal.com/2008/08/mysql-officially-declared-microsoft-sql-server-compeditor/comment-page-1/#comment-12609 Carl J Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:47:15 +0000 http://www.coderjournal.com/?p=265#comment-12609 All that Microsoft has done is put together a marketing page that tries to compare SQL Server with MySQL. I fail to see how they have taken the needs of the Web 2.0 crowd. You might be able to argue that releasing the Express Editions of SQL Server (2005 and soon 2008) is targeting MySQL in some way shape or form, but SQL Server 2008 is still targeting the monolytic providers of databases such as IBM and Oracle. All that Microsoft has done is put together a marketing page that tries to compare SQL Server with MySQL. I fail to see how they have taken the needs of the Web 2.0 crowd.

You might be able to argue that releasing the Express Editions of SQL Server (2005 and soon 2008) is targeting MySQL in some way shape or form, but SQL Server 2008 is still targeting the monolytic providers of databases such as IBM and Oracle.

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