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My company went through BizSpark 3 years ago. We're now running everything on Windows Azure. No complaints here. Sure, I'd like SQL Azure to have a few more features but there haven't been any deal breakers yet. C# is by far my most favorite programming language and is probably what keeps me coming back to .NET & Sql Server.

I must admit though, I'm very intrigued by a lot of cool features found in PostgreSQL. Specifically HStore.

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Chances are you are not dealing with banking, insurance or medical data while running on Azure. After the last several weeks, we had to assure clients, that none of the data is stored on Azure. Plus with the standard version of SQL Server or Azure you don't get full auditing or encryption.

That's correct. I actually used to work for a company which built health information systems for hospitals so I'm aware of the hurdles there. They were .NET based too. Hospital network contracts pay very well but they are absolutely the worst customers.

Postgres works pretty well with C#. I've used Dapper + Postgres stored procs very happily.

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