darryl.hasieber (3/17/2009)
No offence but thank the good lord not everyone thinks like that or we would have stopped development with DOS on a ZX spectrum and we would travel to work by horse or bicycle. After all even those who are happy with SQL 2000 could probably have settled for MSDE but when you compare DTS and SSIS or SSAS 2000 vs SSAS 2005 you cannot honestly say that all the new stuff is just add-ons to make you buy the product.Things may plateau on features or technology for a while but sooner or later someone will come along and reinvent the wheel and we will be off and running again and that even applies to Outlook or Word.
The world cannot stand still and we need people to believe we have not "done it all".
I think you're missing the point. It's not that everything is done, it's not that we don't need innovation. It's that not every instance, or every situation cries out for the latest and greatest.
If I start a delivery business, I have the choice of using a new truck, or an older one with less capabilities. If I start a bar, I can get brand new guns that properly dispense mixed drinks in measured amounts, or I can get older knockoffs that run according to the user's desire.
I don't need 80% of Word's features. It's a commodity, and for most writing, it's overkill. A knockoff like ThinkOffice might work fine for most of my work.
Many of my SQL Server instances never run DTS or SSIS. They don't need anything more than SS2K provides. If someone has a knockoff, is that worth using in those cases? If they're providing support?
There are definitely places where SS2K8, and SQL 11, will make more sense. Where they'll be better choices, and they're worth taking advantage of (and paying for) to build a better application.