Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Is Microsoft moving to the Enterprise market and how important is the enterpreneur for them?


My company Exact has next mission:

Serving entrepreneurial businesses is at the heart of what we do. We serve local and international companies in more than 125 countries and offer our solutions in more than 40 languages. Our solutions provide our customers the freedom to successfully address challenges and opportunities, creating value for their customers and ultimately for themselves.

With this mission in mind, I look to all new products of Microsoft. Last week SQL Server 2008 R2 is released to manufacturing. I'm indeed enthousiastic about this product. Some new features can be very useful for our customers like data compression and the powerpivots. However our customers are enterpreneurs which do not have a lot of IT knowledge. If you look to PowerPivot, this products is too complex for them to install and configure. Please have a look to the one page architecture. It explains everything:


A readable PDF version of the Power Pivot Architecture can be downloaded here.

If we look to data compression it is only available as of the Enterprise edition. This feature can be very useful for them to save diskspace and improve performance. However 95% of our customers is using the Express, Workgroup or Standard edition of SQL server. The price difference between these versions with the Enterprise edition is too big for them.

In SQL Server 2008 R2 2 new editions are introduced however all for the high end market: SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse edition.

I hope that this is not a new trend that Microsoft is moving to the high end market. I hope they will not forget the entrepeneur. Let's see what the future will bring.

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6 comments:

clive boulton said...

Reading between the lines:

Is not Microsoft clumsy signaling the SMB eco system (ought to be) moving to cloud platform from local area network.

Lan ICT effectively blocks collaboration outside the small business.

SalesForce vmforce webinar showed mobile is accelerating a switchover

Techmartin said...

Movers. Contrary to some statements I came across in other articles, Movers do care about your shipment, in most cases, moving company

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