filePro to MySQL

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005, Dan Coutu wrote:
>Just to throw an interesting twist into this and provide some 
>stimulation for your brain cells...
>
>MySQL 5 has recently been released. One of the particularly interesting 
>features of it is that it provides a mechanism for people to extend it 
>by adding new underlying database storage engines. What this means is 
>that it is now technically possible, given sufficient technical 
>knowledge, to make MySQL interface directly with filePro database files 
>as if they were just another type of database engine (like InnoDB or 
>MyISAM.)

I wonder if this is a foreshadowing of potential problems with MySQL since
Oracle recently purchased the company responsible for the innodb engine
that MySQL uses to handle transaction processing.

I've been a bit leary of the MySQL licensing terms as they're not
clearly open source in the way that postgresql is.

Bill
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