Migration to MySQL?

From a "price point of view" migrating from the actual platform (2 node
cluster Windows server 2003 with SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition)to MySQL
can be very attractive.
In fact our management starts to think that way...
My question is related to the faisability of this operation in a critical
production cluster server.
Is it recommanded?
Pros and Cons?
Why yes and why no.
Please advise.
Franco
It is difficult to answer this type of questions rigorously in a newsgroup
forum. I'd suggest that you invole all the stakeholders and conduct a
comparative risk analysis on the migration. The compartive risk analysis
should cover the key risk factors that are important to your organizaton.
Note that cost factors are but one category among many others.
Some of risk factors to consider include reliability and resilience (e.g.
high availability, stability of the DBMS, proven platform, etc), scalability
and performance (e.g. scalability in terms of database size, # of processors,
memory size, partitioning, index maintenance, etc), manageability (e.g. ease
of backup/restore), operations issus (e.g. need for consistency checks,
availability of expetise, monitoring tools, etc), portfolio impact (e.g. what
is the mix of your installed DBMS and apps using various DBMS, dependencies
among the databases, etc), and supportability (e.g. vendor support, user
community, etc). Obviously, you would have to rate these and other factors
per their relative importance to your apps and organization.
Linchi
"Franco" wrote:

> From a "price point of view" migrating from the actual platform (2 node
> cluster Windows server 2003 with SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition)to MySQL
> can be very attractive.
> In fact our management starts to think that way...
> My question is related to the faisability of this operation in a critical
> production cluster server.
> Is it recommanded?
> Pros and Cons?
> Why yes and why no.
> Please advise.
> --
> Franco