Although I agree with all of your emotions because I share many of them, certain of your comments have me wondering how much time you have spent around big corporates.
Microsoft is to this day, beyond pervasive. I have over a decades worth of experience in data analysis, systems analysis, business intelligence and software design and I have never been in a big corporate office that does not use exchange, Outlook is de facto, period.
Clearly then all of those desktops are windows boxes.
With the release of MSBI as a competitor to all of the top flight BI suites that pretty much comes bundles with MSSQL... Watch this space - MS will be ubiquitous in BI within the next decade, I am an expert in the field and I have zero doubt about that.
The simple fact is that MS is still the 'safe' (define that as you will) choice for the dinosaurs that run corporate IT... The world you assert as real right now is a in my opinion a far future possible state, nothing more.
Companies using Microsoft SQL (and sometimes requiring the same from others, which is very odd) are often viewed as somewhat clueless. I think for business people, Microsoft has some positive aura (I don't really know why), but everyone else just tries to stay mostly away from them.
Of course it will - everyone needs to understand their data, how else do you think they make an informed decision?
If anything this market is increasing in size, and the Microsoft suite does an excellent job of filling the mid size end of the market.
Dont knock MSSQL till youve tried it because its pretty fucking awesome at the moment.
I use MSSQL every day. But that's because I'm currently working in IT for a very large company. I don't expect the job I do to exist for another 10 years so I think it's irrelevant what's popular here.
Microsoft is to this day, beyond pervasive. I have over a decades worth of experience in data analysis, systems analysis, business intelligence and software design and I have never been in a big corporate office that does not use exchange, Outlook is de facto, period.
Clearly then all of those desktops are windows boxes.
With the release of MSBI as a competitor to all of the top flight BI suites that pretty much comes bundles with MSSQL... Watch this space - MS will be ubiquitous in BI within the next decade, I am an expert in the field and I have zero doubt about that.
The simple fact is that MS is still the 'safe' (define that as you will) choice for the dinosaurs that run corporate IT... The world you assert as real right now is a in my opinion a far future possible state, nothing more.