What is the Reason large sites don't use MySQL with ASP.NET?
- by Luke101
I have read this article from highscalability about stackoverflow and other large websites. Many large high traffic .NET sites such as plentyoffish.com, mysapce and SO all use .NET technologies and use SQL SERver for their database. In the article it says SO said
As you add more and more database
servers the SQL Server license costs
can be outrageous. So by starting
scale up and gradually going scale out
with non-open source software you can
be in a world of financial hurt.
I don't understand why don't high traffic .NET sites convert their databases to MySQL as it is waay cheaper then SQL Server