[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: OE migration to MS SQL utility

  • Thread starter Thread starter dbeavon
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
D

dbeavon

Guest
I'm curious... Are you going to actually start using SQL dataserver? Are you going to try running your legacy ABL on it? We are still running HP-UX too... and we had also evaluated SQL dataserver this past year. One of the challenges for us was the very limited offerings in terms of licensing. I think we were offered "named user" licensing - which isn't that cost-efficient . As far as the dataserver technology goes, however, I was very impressed. It seemed to translate from ABL to ODBC very well in most cases (80%), and there are powerful alternative approaches for the 20% that needs an extra performance boost.

Continue reading...
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top