Comment 21 for bug 87063

I just want to add my voice to the need to package the MSSQL extension. I think it would help Ubuntu to break into the server market (Ubuntu specifically, not Linux). I have a very big client that uses MSSQL and has no intention of changing to any other database system in the foreseeable future. The system administrators were very open to setting Linux PHP application servers and they specifically asked about Ubuntu and because they heard good things about it. However having to compile extensions for it is not an option for them. Having spend a couple of days figuring out how to compile it myself I have to agree. So come deployment time, if the extension isn't there in the repo they'll have to look elsewhere.