Well ... SQL Server 2005 Express should be good for most of the Admins out there wanting to do their own home rolled inventory databases but for some reason won't or can't run MySQL

Note though that for those that run stuff like DB2/ORACLE it appears that Microsoft is offering a big discount to switch over. Considering the Enterprise license is $25,000 per CPU that could be a big discount - but that is small in comparison to the programming costs of switching over.



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But wait! The generosity from the world's richest software company didn't stop there: Ballmer also announced that Microsoft will be giving 50 percent discounts on SQL Server 2005 licenses to customers who migrate off competing databases, "like Oracle!"