Open-source alternative · Database
Replace Microsoft SQL Server with PostgreSQL / MariaDB.
World-class open source relational databases. Full ACID compliance, stored procedures, JSON support, replication.
Today's licence price
2 tiers. Microsoft SQL Server's prices.
Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.
Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.
Five years on the books
What the spend looks like compounding.
Microsoft SQL Server grows around 10% per year on average. PostgreSQL / MariaDB hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.
Five-year cumulative saving
R1.28M
Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.
How this migration runs
Microsoft SQL Server → PostgreSQL / MariaDB, in four moves.
Audit
We snapshot the schema, the indexes, the stored procs, and the people who use it day to day.
Plan
Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.
Migrate
Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.
Operate
Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.
Same category
Other database migrations.
Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.
Check the project
Migrate Microsoft SQL Server.
Keep the money.
Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.