>>We have clients who can't keep a simple Windows network running, and we're supposed to trust them to run a SQL-Server (no matter which kind)? The prospect scares me.
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>The only way to do that is to make it completely standalone, with fixed settings, automatic maintenance etc - practically invisible, so the user needs only to feed the pigs. If that is possible, fine, if not, do what is possible.

::chuckle::

The part that scares me is they won't be able to find the pigs. <g>

People think I'm joking when I say that, but I'm not. We have everything from Mom & Pop shops to massive multi-national financial institutions.

One client, after a flurry of network-related problems (that they blamed on our software, of course), finally acquiesced to our suggestion that they needed a network administrator. They looked at their head processing clerk, waved a dead chicken, and said "you're a network administrator!" And they couldn't understand why implementing our suggestion didn't solve their problems. *wild cackle*

And don't get me started on the stupidity committed by large IT departments!