SCO Survey concerning MySQL

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When asked his whereabouts on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:08:51PM -0500, Walter
Vaughan took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> I kinda thought it was about SQL servers and Multi-valued DBMS's, and to
> measure the market for their "Me Inc" stuff. It's a PITA to communicate
> with the current tools from PHP to all the multivalued DBMS's on that
> list, so that (LAMP), cannot be it. I know I spent a few weeks in that
> exact world. The only thing that I see in common from that list is that
> they all have some sort of normal SQL interface.

Questions 21-23.  It doesn't get any more directed than that.  For those
too lazy to look up the survey [again]:

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21. Have you heard of the LAMP solution stack
(Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl/Python/PHP)?  Yes NO

22. A similar, yet more robust, solution stack from SCO is the SCAMP
solution stack (SCO UNIX/Apache/MySQL/Perl, Python,PHP). Would you like to
learn more about SCAMP?  Yes No

23. Would you like to be contacted about the SCO SCAMP stack with MySQL?
Yes No
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I think that reads as pretty clearly targetted.

As for SCO, I haven't kept up with anything except the lawsuit regarding
them.  What's "Me Inc"?

And PHP...heh.  It's a PITA to deal with PHP at all.  I'm certainly no fan
of it.  And compared to perl or python, PHP is a security nightmare if you
can go by the security digests outlining vulnerabilities in PHP-based apps
and PHP itself.  The only bigger magnet for programmers of insecure code is
probably in Redmond.  It's gotten -so- bad, SANS took the following measure
on February 20:

"Note: The number of web application vulnerabilities, such as file
include, SQL injection and others, has sky rocketed in the last few
years. To keep Part I of @RISK to a manageable size, we limit part I
coverage to critical vulnerabilities in widely-deployed web packages
such as phpBB. If you use less widely-deployed web applications, please
be sure to review part II to find their vulnerabilities."

There've been -so- many bugs (90% of them are PHP-based apps) that they're
not even going to report them all anymore.

PHP == __AVOID__

As for the "multivalued" part, what do you mean, exactly?  I'm not grasping
your whole meaning.

> filePro is a Rapid Application Development toolkit that has a simple
> built-in data store, and does not compliment in any shape or form the "Me
> Inc" initiative. If it does, someone please give me the cluestick.

I wanna read about this "initiative".  

> What's comical is that as an incentive to fill out the survey, they are
> giving our a 1-1/2 year old PDA running Microsoft Windows for Pocket
> PC's.

It's gotta be better than my P100 Digital HiNote VP laptop.  :)  Besides,
my wife is wanting a PDA anyway...

mark->
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