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This came to our DBA team today. I'd appreciate your thoughts. I'm not a business
guy, just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me off. Is it common practice
by MS?
It is important from an Architecture point of view that we understand all the various approaches to "web services" (also known as "grid computing" -- see my recent report). Microsoft's dot Net initiative is their approach to this grand overarching software strategy.
There is a second reason why we might be interested specifically in dot Net. Subsidiary XYZ earns $xyz a year for us from
Microsoft by [performing certain services], etc. Microsoft has told our management that one of their criteria for evaluating their vendors will be how good of a MS customer is the potential vendor. Specifically, has the vendor bought in to the dot Net strategy. Now we aren't going to make our global enterprise solutions strategy decisions based upon that point alone, but it's not something we are going to ignore either.
Therefore, I support investigating SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot Net, but I emphasize the word INVESTIGATING.
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