Yep, and after MS (Apple, or some other controlling vendor) pulls the rug out from under you on your development platform of choice you don't go back to proprie

Yep, and after MS (Apple, or some other controlling vendor) pulls the rug out from under you on your development platform of choice you don't go back to proprietary DBs. Was doing some great stuff with FoxBase/FoxPRO on the Mac. After that mess with dropping of support my next DB platform was open source (LAMP) way more flexibility and am still using it.