Okay I did a bit of looking around. It seems there are different units for every single mysql version in the world - and ipso facto the program compiled with one version of mysql won't work with future ones... OUCH.
Now firebird is a damn big nightmare to get running, oracle is hugely overpriced, most of my users despise postgres (as anybody who is NOT a DBA but needs a db-backed APPS tends to) ... Is there anything left ? Especially when network transparency is SO critical ? A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.getopenlab.com | 086 654 2898 (Fax) http://www.silentcoder.co.za | +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil) GPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x27CFFE5A
pgpVqTiXRl2nk.pgp
Description: PGP signature
