SCO Survey concerning MySQL

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>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.

They didn't have a place to put comments after the one asking if
we were going to implement MySQL on SCO Servers.  I wanted a
chance to say that we only use the MySQL client software on SCO
systems to get the data from proprietary applications running on
SCO onto our Linux and/or FreeBSD servers.

I had previously said that my main concern with Open Source
databases are the licensing terms, and that MySQL's are somewhat
problematical.  They didn't have a question regarding which open
source database systems we do use (e.g. postgresql).

BTW:  Yesterday's User Friendly was pretty good:

	http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060226

Bill
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