Developing for the future - SQL*Server

[Azsapper@aol.com]

The fact that you'd be stuck on Windows-based servers is reason enough to 
look at alternatives. My guess is that Oracle would be competitively priced, and 
your choice of server platforms is a lot more flexible.

In a message dated 10/2/03 1:22:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
guy.werry@hbms.ca writes:

> We've recently been discussing future development.  Our current Powerhouse /
>  HP-Ux environment may not be the proper platform for the development being
>  looked at: long story, don't know if I can get into specifics publically.
>  
>  So, the discussion has been about doing something in MS Access (user's
>  idea).  We (I.T. folks) don't like this because of scalability issues,
>  learning curves, etc.  An alternative idea was MS SQL*Server, which is a
>  real database.  
>  
>  What to develop in was the next question.  From some of the discussions 
that
>  I've seen on this list in the last while, it looks like Axiant or PH Web on
>  top of SQL*Server is working well for people.  Is this the case?
>  
>  One of our consideration is that we have Powerhouse expertise; some Oracle
>  Forms/SQL experience also, but I don't know what the costs would be like 
for
>  the tools and I'm sure that the database admin / purchase costs would be
>  much better with SQL*Server.
>  
>  Whaddya think?
>  
>  Guy Werry.