May I have this dance?

Looks as if there's a new partner in town. I see that ANTS Software is now listed on the MySQL website as a gold partner. The listing may have been there for a while, but I just noticed it today.

A quote from this ANTs listing, "ACS accelerates database migration to MySQL while enabling portability for legacy application", sounds as if the migration to MySQL is as easy as the migration from Sybase to Oracle. Let's see now, that's Sybase to Oracle, Oracle to MySQL, MySQL to IBM, IBM to ...... I believe the dance floor is getting a bit crowded. Brings to mind the lyrics of an old song I used to like, "save the last dance for me."

One other tidbit that makes me go hummmm. This posting, also from the ANTs listing at MySQL,

Products for MySQL from ANTs Software

• ANTs Compatibility Server

  The ANTs Compatibility Server is a middleware solution which allows server side code (queries, functions, and stored procedures) from legacy databases to run natively and transparently against the MySQL database with little-to-no application rewrite.

reads "products." Are there currently "products" from ***** to MySQL? (Use the database of your choice.)

Reading about this MySQL /ANTs partnership just makes the musings in my prior post all the more interesting and plausible.

ANTs in an open source format dancing with MySQL.

And the beat goes on!

~~David~~