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Reasons not to upgrade to SQL Server 2012 — 5 Comments

  1. The biggest barriers I can see are 3rd Party apps and Hosting (if your business uses hosting).

    Training does not need to be completed straight away, not for an upgrade at least. This can be put off for a while as most of the features for 2005 and 2008 will still work.

    Licensing – always the case with any upgrade, a business can either afford it or not.

    New Servers – If you have any virtualisation within your business, there is no need to purchase new servers simply for Dev and Test purposes. If you do not have virtualisation, then yes, new servers (or old servers repurposed) are a must.

    Testing – Same as licensing, this is always going to be required for any upgrade, so would have been part of your plans anyway.

    The biggest wait for most businesses was for SP1, which is now out, so I expect more businesses to be migrating over the next 6-12 months (It can take this long to get the ball rolling in some places, I know, the place I am currently, they have only just upgraded servers to 2008 R2!).

  2. Hi James,

    I find the first two points points a little bit misleading in.

    Training… I don’t think anyone has to learn any new features if they don’t want to. Licensing is obviously as always more complex so those with software assurance have lower cost but also let’s bear in mind that 4 core Enterprise Edition is cheaper than 2008 R2 per server enterprise edition and 6 cores is slightly more expensive and 8 cores is more expensive.

    and obviously it is all about having reasons to upgrade and compare them against reasons not to upgrade…. on BI side there are lots of reasons to upgrade 😉

    Regards
    Emil

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