June 4, 2012 at 8:40 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Upgrade Avalanche
June 5, 2012 at 6:31 am
I've yet to met a developer outside of Microsoft that is excited about Windows 8.
June 6, 2012 at 1:52 am
I think there's too many upgrades too soon, especially for both large companies and home users who can't afford to keep upgrading when the old one still works fine, especially in the current financial climate.
At work we're only just upgrading to Windows 7 and IE8 from XP, IE6 and Office 2003 as the upgrade process takes considerable time to get a consistent build tested and then rolled out to 3000 users.
We're still getting the last databases off SQL2000 (due to the DTS to SSIS change and establishing business needs) and onto 2005 or 2008 - we haven't gone 2008R2 due to higher licencing coasts and SQL 2012 isn't even up for consideration!
Microsoft should give us longer between versions and just issue service packs - if it ain't broke why do we need to fix it?
June 6, 2012 at 8:42 am
Microsoft should give us longer between versions and just issue service packs - if it ain't broke why do we need to fix it?
You don't. But that's not why they are doing it. 😀
"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"
June 6, 2012 at 8:49 am
P Jones (6/6/2012)
Microsoft should give us longer between versions and just issue service packs - if it ain't broke why do we need to fix it?
A few things here. One is revenue, obviously MS (and all vendors) want to sustain this, so they are looking to make new sales all the time. I'm not sure they're counting on a ton of upgrades, but they are counting on market pressure to push people to upgrade.
The other thing is competition. As Oracle, DB2, etc. change and evolve, MS wants to keep pace and add things to SQL Server to make it competitive. This means more rapid versions.
I'm OK with the 18-24 month cycle for SQL Server, but I don't expect to upgrade any particular server more than every 3 or 4 cycles. That means that I also expect to be supporting 3-4 versions at any one time.
June 6, 2012 at 10:18 am
Maybe we will wait until Release 2 comes out. By the time it is well established.
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