Hi Hilmar,
in my firm has a joke about software:
"The free software is the best!!!, but
No payment, no obligation, no support, no warranty, no loyalty"
We were forced to make links in a billing system of cable internet operator to MySQL, but except this we do not work with it.
We develop technology, where the same VFP front end can work localy or through ODBC with native DBF, MSDE, SQL Server. There are MSDE 2000. In reality MSDE is cutted free MS SQL Server.
limitations are till 5 concurent links, no replication, no enterprise manager, no....