sirchristian

Your analysis of SQL Server is spot on. It's the biggest expense going 100% on the MS stack.

I agree "get all the free Microsoft goodies when you start, and once you really need the paid versions you're probably successful enough that the cost doesn't matter much" is one fair conclusion to the article. However I don't believe that's the only conclusion. Mostly I want .NET to be a consideration as an option when building out the technology in a startup.

I'm concerned about vender lock-in as well, just less concerned then I used to be. Microsoft's gone to great lengths to reduce some of my concerns. The fact that you are using C# with Postgres demonstrates that there doesn't need to be complete lock-in.

Do you mind sharing more about what your C#/Postgres app looks like? This combination is one option I'll be looking at for my next venture.

I've used Mercurial over Dropbox before and would caution against it. Somehow the repository got corrupted (I'm betting on a bad Dropbox sync) and then all the repositories got corrupted. Since then moved to bitbucket.