EWeek Details Linux to Windows Migration

nakhla writes "Even though we always hear stories of companies migrating from Windows to Linux, eWeek is running a story describing several companies that have migrated from Linux to Windows. Among their reasons are inadequate support options, application compatibility issues, stability problems, and the added cost of troubleshooting."

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Re:Examples are rubbish.

[Per Wigren]

Please. MySQL is a good SQL database for SQL newbies but it doesn't even support the most basic things that are required for more advanced projects.

In any well designed database you want to move the data-logic to the database where it belongs. You can probably live without statement-level stored procedures and views, but MySQL doesn't even support foreign keys, triggers and checks which are essential when you need to make sure your data is consistent.

In the future, when recommending a database to someone who is talking about Oracle, MsSQL, Sybase etc, please point them to PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. At least until MySQL v5.1 is released because there's where they plan to implement these features.