Its not a drop in replacement. You have to write code/configuration (but not much). Its definitely suitable for your use case - we use it for the same thing.
Feature set is comparable. We tend to avoid specific platform features as they are a migration risk.
Ha - our SQL license fee is around £60k a machine one off per major drop. We're not dropping that again for 2012. No way. Not when we have 8 machines :)
Feature set is comparable. We tend to avoid specific platform features as they are a migration risk.
Ha - our SQL license fee is around £60k a machine one off per major drop. We're not dropping that again for 2012. No way. Not when we have 8 machines :)