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MicrAhoo! Acquisition and SQL Server?
Saw an interesting quick post about the whole Microsoft/Yahoo! acquisition thing – they were talking specifically about SQL Server and whether it would eventually replace MySQL on the many different offerings Yahoo! has that rely on MySQL. OK, so it’s a tad bit early to seriously talk about this, but it’s cool to think about nonetheless.
Talk about migration project! I know many times myspace.com has been talked about with their infrastructure and what they’ve done in working with SQL Server, the things that they’ve worked through, etc. I can imagine the effort to migrate Flickr and other projects at Yahoo! would be many case studies in and of themselves. I have to snicker to myself a bit with our recent talk about how long it takes to migrate from one version of SQL Server to the other – I wonder what would happen if, half-way through the upgrade at Yahoo!, a new version of SQL Server came out. Which would they choose?! But I digress.
I think it would be fascinating and a whole new level of "dogfood" for Microsoft and the database and OS teams for them to manage through the migration of the properties. This isn’t to say that they’ve not worked through massive migrations and upgrades before, but these are non-technical, end-user community-type things with lots of dependencies externally and internally. If you consider the infrastructure to be migrated along with that type of project, it’s just a huge undertaking to put it overly mildly.
Of course that’s waaaaaaay down the road, but just to think about it – it would be great fun to watch and learn from along the way, no doubt about that.
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