SCO Survey concerning MySQL

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At Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:49:44PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Bud Henschen was observed uttering:
[Quoting SCOX]
> and MySQL specifically. We'd like to invite you to go to click here: 
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=326641814990. Share your views with us. 
[snip to non-quoted]
> >>> SCO is doing a survey and one of the questions is what database are you 
> >>> currently using.  Now's your chance to promote filePro.  If enough 
> >>> individuals would indicate that they are filePro users, maybe it would 
> >>> make an impact on the survey and how SCO would view filePro in the 
> >>> future.

Bud, look at questions 18-20 and -SPECIFICALLY- 21-23.

They're -NOT- interested in any other databases.  They're pushing SCO as
the base platform for a replacement for Linux in the "LAMP" solution.
The -only- real interest they have in putting forth this survey are how
many people they can expect to adopt what they've already planned on
putting forth, and maybe how to tweak it.

You missed the entire point of it, Bud.

The -point- is that they're apparently aligning themselves with MySQL and
the rest of the open-source-based solution based around the "LAMP" setup.

The way I read that survey, they're already fully committed.  They couldn't
give two fiegs about filePro or anything else except where they're going
and how to best get there.

The rest of the questions are all related to migration path and marketing
slant by gathering statistics on where people have been and how to best
drive them to this, if possible.  Writing in filePro as something you've
deployed would only help them make it easier to see good reasons to leave
filePro, actually.  That, and get you an entry for a free laptop.  

I think I'll enter the contest; thanks for the link.

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