>>>There really is no such thing as a cheap RDBMS. If they do not want to use FoxPro they will have to pay the money for the licenses.
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>>That's not true. MySQL is a RDBMS, and it is free.
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>I don't know much about MySQL, but I would not choose to use it over VFP. Just because something is free does not make it worth the price.
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>You need to ask yourself if you would put MySQL in a production environment where an enterprise relied on it.

And perhaps you need to go take a look at:

http://www.mysql.com/information/users.html

Where you will see how a whole lotta people trust MySQL with their business, in some cases, solely.

MySQL isn't the only free db anyway...there are PostgreSQL and Interbase, both of which are used by plenty of large clients too. Heck, Interbase used to be commercial, and is now free...are you saying that as soon as it became free it became useless as a viable db alternative?

JoeK