You don't seem to understand. You're right, Apple shouldn't have the ability to set prices for other stores, but what they did was get the publishers to agree that they wouldn't allow other stores (aka: Amazon) to sell for prices less than Apple.

That's why there is such a "to do" about this. It's not the way things normally work and that's why the DOJ has brought the lawsuit about.

HAHA! Love TMBG... makes me feel old though.

Oracle is definitely a cheaper more open option to float out there...

You do realize that everyone who watched weeds will be humming along right?

Apple keeps suing everyone around Google. I'm sure that really encourages Google to want to do anything for Apple for free.

I regularly feel like the power of almighty Oracle is slightly overstated. SQL Server has a bad rap from around SQL Server 2000 and under but today it's pretty powerful right out of the box. With that said, I don't have any hard data to back it up, but my guess is its a lot of misconceptions and design flaws. Throw a giant team of people and a boatload of hardware at each solution and I bet you could get similar results, its just that people expect to spend a stupid amount of money on Oracle, not so much on SQL Server.

Scope is important, however there is a common misconception that SQL Server can't handle anything bigger than a few Gigabytes. The largest single SQL Server database I've ever heard of is about 70TB. I'm sure 200TB would find it cramped but it also depends on how you're defining a database.

Microsoft SQL Server definitely isn't designed for smaller databases... maybe you're thinking of Access?

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Don't worry, you can still do your click navigation.

Everybody keeps complaining about the interface. Really it's like it just opens the start menu on bootup. From there you can hang around the desktop all you want. I didn't like it at first but then once I realized that you could hit the start button and stat typing what you wanted, similar to the current start menu, who cares? PLEASE keep bitching about the same thing thinking it'll change. Thanks for your valuable input.

Actually, when I logged on last night, I had a checkbox to have my uploaded files modified or not.... Granted it was all or none but still, an option is an option.

I've found the Tivo Slide works pretty well for controlling it since it supports Bluetooth. The only downside is to get it to work well in Windows, you really need to buy Intelliremote by Melloware to map the keys to functions.

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Backups with a powershell restore script can be pretty easy to use once you get them setup. As always, if you go the "backup" method, make sure you test your backups sometimes and your full restore procedure to make sure it works. It's not fun to find a problem with them when it really matters.

Replication is a pain to deal with. You could just use a failover cluster.