Their idea of adding MySQL Protocol support to SAPDB is especially a good idea (and one I experimented with before, actually), because it will allow MySQL to be more easily integrated with the dozens of apps that have out-of-the-box support for PG-SQL and MySQL.
It's just a logical step, so MySQL doesn't get blamed for incompatibility.
The lack of a good DB-API on Unix is not an excuse, that every tiny app just supports MySQL. MySQL is not "the standard" for a database API.
I would be happier, if ODBC/ANSISQL would become the standard for every DB-app, so i could use any ODBC-driver i like.
Even Perl has done better as PHP for example. They have one DB-API that supports loadable Drivers. ODBC is very rarely used under Unix - and porting ODBC might not have been the best idea either - but it is at least one general DB-API that supports loadable drivers that might become a future standard.
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