It was recently brought up to me that while this blog is listed as a general DB blog, I tend to write more about MS than any other vendor. I agreed that that was the case. Then the person asked why, since there was so much other DB news out there.

To that I simply replied... well, MS is the only vendor who keeps me informed of everything they do (almost). Oracle, IBM, Sybase, MySQL, etc... they never tell me anything. I get press releases from MS, I get training materials from them, I get books, I get all kinds of info all the time. Apparently MS wants me writing about them.

So anyway, it's no big mystery. I write a lot about MS because they're making sure I know what's going on. And nobody else does that.

I do get other vendors writing me about stuff they think is interesting, and when our interests align, I write about them. But I can't write about something I don't know about, and I don't have time to go beg all of them to give me something juicy.

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Posted by Sean McCown on May 12, 2008 12:33 PM