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Request to Microsoft: Let us deploy SQL Server Mobile in Windows XP!

SQL Server Mobile 2005 can be run in any Win32 box, but the licensing terms only let you use in Pocket PCs and Tablet PCs.

This kind of licensing stuff is quite annoying for developers, that don't like 'artificial' constraints when using software products.

Additionally, SQL Server Mobile looks like a very interesting solution for single user data in 'Occasionally Connected Applications'. It's much lighter than SQL Server Express, it has very good replication support, it's has a good query processor, etc.

So, please, can you let us deploy it on any platform?

Thanks!

2 Comments

  • I agree, seems to me that the marketing gurus at MS think too much, stumbling around, getting in the way of progress.



    They're *so* short-sighted...why dam-up obvious channels that would provide instant adoption of great technology by the masses?



    Seems like a no-brainer to me, but I don't have a phD in marketing.




  • It's ironic when nearly all of the smart client/windows forms sessions at TechEd 2005 some how or another employed SQL Mobile rather than SQL Express as the local database. People will be using it regardless of the license so they should just eliminate this artificial constraint.

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