Sage mySQL no more…

For those of you that we aware Sage have been working on a version of Sage 50 which uses the open, standard database engine, mySQL, codenamed Sage 100. This was a supposed to improve performance for those customers running large volumes of data through Sage 50 (yes I know who you are…..I’ve seen those 7000 customers on your sales ledger ) but a very recent announcement from Sage has stated that development has stopped.

Reasons aren’t entirely clear, my thinking was that if it didnt offer the ability to talk the database across the WAN (i.e. Internet) as well as the LAN then its not *that* much of a forward leap. My experience is that customers move from Sage 50 not due to data volumes but for functionality, things like multi-location stock.

Of course this isn’t the first time they’ve done a U-turn, last year the very poor and buggy Sage Live was almost drowned at birth. The SaaS offering never really got started before being shelved and allowing all the SaaS boys to further strengthen their offerings and increase market share.

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