Microsoft Goes Head-to-Head With IBM

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on Microsoft's latest announcements that it is going after large-business computing, a realm that IBM currently has a stronghold on." From the article: "In both cases, the company has fashioned 'enterprise' versions of the products with additional security and collaboration-enabling features for sale to large businesses. Microsoft has spent $20 billion over the past three years on these upgrades, and Ballmer says it will spend $500 million over the next year marketing them to corporations. 'We're unlocking the next wave of growth for Microsoft,' Ballmer predicted during a press conference after his speech." We've previously discussed Microsoft's plans for IBM.

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[Daniel_Staal]

You're buying databases from MS? Why? For low-end My-SQL is decent and at least as good as anything MS has put out, and Postgres can handle just about anything Oracle or DB2 can. Ok, for extreme loads Oracle and DB2 outpreform Postgres, but MS doesn't even have anything in that market.

What are you using a MS database for? (Well, Access is decent as a teaching tool for basic concepts...)