Chris Travers wrote:
> The example I gave was one where my app was designed to replace the old way
> of doing things (in this case excel). Replacing an Excel spreadsheet with a
> database-driven appliation is one area where you have no additional risk of
> information loss when you are running any RDBMS on the system.
>
> Also, here in Indonesia, most of these B&B's charge less than $30/night.
> Purchasing a new system (often $700 or more) is the equivalent of 23
> room-nights (for a place which typically has fewer than 10 rooms). Used
> PC's are out of the question because usually they have hardware issues, and
> so the cost savings would be marginal.
>
> Please remember that the economic tradeoff of whether to buy an additional
> system varies quite a bit around the world. For this reason, I decided to
> build my application to be platform and database agnostic, supporting both
> Firebird and PostgreSQL.
So one more reason to buy cheap hardware and avoid to pay M$ licenses or
not ?
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
