Re: Database or store to handle 30 Mb/sec and 40,000 inserts/sec

Double Echo wrote:

> Even if SQL-Server is 'inferior', why does it matter?

Depends on where the inferiority is. If it is scalability it may matter. If it is in performance it may matter. If it is in security and compliance with government regulations it matters a whole lot.

> "Technical Superiority" was never a requirement for software marketing or
> software sales.Some of the best technology available died in the marketplace
> simply because the products were never sold properly.

Spoken like someone straight from c.d.informix. ;-)

I think you've won the gold star on this one.

Microsoft's inferiority, unfortunately, lies in the single operating system upon which it can be run. If it ran on Linux it might actually be a competitor. But I can't think of any amount of drugs or alcohol that would make me put mission critical data on Windows.

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