On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:27:06 -0600 "Christofer C. Bell" <cbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In reading what you said here, I think you meant "yep". :-) possibly, i might not have followed your logic. > So in the end, development houses will most likely go with buying the license > or using another product. I'll bet that MySQL decides to change their > license scheme again at some point -- I think what they've done here will end > up backfiring on them. we'll have to see. there are two other viable SQL databases in the open source community, both of which are arguably more sophisticated than MySQL. businesses might well find themselves considering these alternatives, and may well change databases rather than deal with the MySQL license weirdness. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security