• The SQL Server community has been the main reason I haven't gone totally to over to OSS with database development. Think about that. (The fact that C# and F# rock is also a factor.)

    If it weren't for SSC, user groups, blogs, Midnight DBAs, Brent, Buck and the rest of the gang, I'd probably be coding Python and Postgres in some Linux backroom for some dubious startup.

    There isn't any commercial software community like SQL Server community. And almost all OSS communities aren't as well organized.