, jinx101 wrote

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That's kind of presumptuous though.  I know they want people to live in the cloud to create residual income, but sometimes it makes sense to have a local database solution.  I'm not against the cloud or central databases but it's not a one size fits all world. 

Who said the database needs to be "in the cloud"? It just shouldn't be on the same machine as your users.

I don't ask my users to install Visual Studio, IIS or Windows Server 2012 on their boxes. I kind of think asking them to install SQL Server is similarly foolish - particularly since now you have to pay for 1 SQL server licence per user rather than 1 per organisation.