SCO Survey concerning MySQL

[Bud Henschen]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> To: <Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:28 PM
> Subject: Re: SCO Survey concerning MySQL
>
>
>> 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.

Nope, I didn't, but I feel that if they see a lot of filePro people using 
SCO and they don't have any interest in LAMP or using MySQL, it might catch 
their attention that there is a large filePro community that want to stay 
with filePro and SCO and at least let them know we're still around and like 
what we're using.  If they would publish the results of the survey, it would 
be nice to see "filePro"  50% (or more) of the database used.   I think it's 
worth the survey, and who knows you may win something.
>>
>> 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.
[snip]
>> I think I'll enter the contest; thanks for the link.

Great!  Remember to promote filePro :-)