MUP - MS OS for 3$ (beat tht open source)

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

Originally Posted by eddie

Now, coming to the "almost one-tenth of SQL Server standard edition" part. Since you have enough knowledge to claim that MySQL is one tenth of SQL Standard edition, I request you to please post a comparison statement between the features of SQL Server and MySQL so that we all can be enlightened about the 1000% efficiency increase by using SQL Server over MySQL

well i said that SQL Server has more features , i didn't say that it's performance is better , there's a diff between features n performance .

have a look at the charts on these pages , u'll see that SQL Server has a lotta more features than MySQL , also mate my point was that For enterprises who have a very large data warehouse SQL Server is the ebst choiceee , n for small-medium businesses , obviously MySQL is better , like for websites , etc .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...gement_systems
http://www.tometasoftware.com/mysql_vs_sqlserver.asp
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.co...196735,00.html
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.co...ml?bucket=NEWS


as you'll se from these articles MySQL may be fast but it's not meant for advanced heavyweight database transactions n handling.

[kumarmohit]

Originally Posted by mail2and

Linux has a great future in places like Kerala, where kids are being taught how to operate computers on open source operating system. When these kids grow up, they will have a choice. A choice that many kids in developed countries do not have.

Just Curious bro, (Please dont flame me as an M$ fanboy or Linux basher) but as you said that they are taught Linux and not Windows, how will they have a choice. I mean they only have a choice if they are taught both Linux and Windows and then allowed to decide what they want. When learning Linux they are stuck to Linux only or at the best the*nix universe. Now *nix is not the only dominant OS family in the world.

While am totally in favour of teaching Linux, I am against leaving out windows altogether. Just like wat is happening in Kerala.

Why not teach both the things to students, after all the part that is taught to students is not as difference as the kernel of the two. Let the student decide which he wants to study @ advanced level. Once given an idea every student can make his own choice. I mean its not the duty of govt to decide which OS should a student study. Its as personal a choice as to which girl/boy to marry.

[praka123]

@mohitkumar:
As far as I understand Kerala gov introduces Linux on all schools,windows is also taught in atleast some schools which is their right to teach.
But UNIXneeds to be taught from basic from school days to have a knowledge on command line,although now Linux GUI's are better and got more options.the distro which kerala sarkar made for students are that easy.with Linux got many nice gui's like gnome,kde,xfce they got options-and if students wants he can learn windows too easy after learning Linux;afterall GUI's are whatever almost similar.I am proud of kerala gov for implementing this.now the only thing is some ppl wants to mix Free Software,Open Source,Linux all with Communism-definitely not.

[kumarmohit]

^^Exactly, In some schools.

Its the same that is happening to Linux elsewhere. Why can we not teach both the OSs everywhere.

As for Windows being easy to learn after beginning with linux, I think that learning windows after linux is as hard as learning linux after windows. Your opinion may differ.

Totally agree on the communism point.