>>I'd bet good money that there are more installs of MySQL than MS or Oracle put together.
Yeah, there's heaps of MySQL out there running all sorts of stuff people might not expect- especially telephony. My first encounter was as part of the AsteriskAtHome project and I didn't even know it was being used for some months. ;-) Personally I'm still entertained by the reality that you can run MySQL, Apache, Samba, SSL, Sendmail, Spam Assassin, Procmail, Fetchmail, DHCP, FTP and Trixbox PBX on a PIII with <1gb RAM.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
