Manual migration from MS SQL Server to MySQL
Mark Brunelli, News Editor writes "It's no small feat to manually migrate an enterprise from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL, but it can be done. Here, Mike Sheffey, CEO of Versora, gives step-by-step instructions for two manual tasks: moving the data structure and the data itself."
FOSS has proven to be an inferior product (if you can even call it a product). You get what you pay for in every case, and with FOSS you get... nothing. Stick with the only real proven solution. Microsoft SQL server. Kicking the crap out of MySQL for over a decade.