Donna Garverick wrote:
>  - richard is absolutely right -- with how the computer industry has
> evolved, mpe is a genuine bargain these days.  but without a more modern
> database, who's going to use the platform?  it's more than time for another
> database solution.  i wish i had an answer for what that solution is.  i
> don't see csy dedicating a team to developing 'image2' (although i wish it
> would happen).  csy's forays into bringing an industry-recognized dbms to
> mpe have (sadly) fallen flat on their faces.  folks -- to me -- this is the
> real problem.  it's not mpe, it's not the lack of marketing.  it's image.
> it was a great database -- but not in today's world.            - d

Is an open-source RDBMS such as http://www.mysql.com/ the answer?
Interestingly, there is a link on that home page describing how NASA converted
an application to use MySQL instead of Oracle.

I have not done any feature comparisons between Image and MySQL and Oracle, and
I speak only as a proponent of open-source software who still has a long list
of stuff I'd like to port to MPE but insufficient free time in which to do it.
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