I hope this isn't an inappropriate list for this...
I have been trying to get ESRI (ww.esri.com) to consider supporting
MySQL as a backend Database. They informed me that MySQL doesn't have
all the features required to support ESRI's products. Since the
alternatives are Oracle and SQL Server, and Oracle is prohibitively
expensive, I'm wondering if your MySQL AB has considered contacting ESRI
to see what their requirements are. ESRI is the standard for GIS
systems. It would seem to me that if your database could be used by
ESRI that you might get tens of thousands of new customers all over the
world.
I'm wondering if anyone else has probed exactly what is missing in MySQL
that makes it inappropriate for use by ESRI.
Regards
Doug P
