Hello Jekke,

> My second option, after Firebird, is SQL Server. If I'm going to sell
> Firebird to the team, I need to compare the two products. Firebird
> already has the upper hand on price point, but it's going to take more
> than that.
>
> So, I have a couple of questions:
>
> If you were presenting Firefox as an alternative to SQL Server, what

Firefox?

> would your selling points be? We've already talked the benefits of open
> source vs. commercial products to death without a conclusion, so that's
> not going to sell it.

Linux as server OS?

> What features of SQL Server am I going to miss if we use Firebird? Is
> there support for complex data types?

What do you mean by complex datatype?

>Extended stored procedures?

Extended Stored Procedures are "external functions", right? These are
available with Firebird. Most people use the name "UDF" (User Defined
Function). But there's no library like with MS SQL.

>Native
> XML support?

Nope, no native XML support. Then again - what does this mean exactly?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
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