This was a postponed decision, because I did not liked to listen to an experience counselor.

Sun Microsystems is in the way of closing MySQL, which is a know feeling years ago, but has never passed the red line of "minor risk" , unfortunately this is a sad reality today. The good news is that OpenSource is an open space for alternatives in most cases.

So where am I going now? I'm going back to PostgreSQL, although is rigid but that guarantees will be that way for preserving OpenSource philosophy.

It is one of my first posts in english(recovered from: http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php/topic,137025.0.html):

I don't know if it is new, but today, alfer a large week of intensive
research, finally i had discover a way to access visual foxpro
databases directly from linux. What do you need? download, compile and
install CLIP from http://sourceforge.net/projects/clip-itk/ then put
the vfp table into the same directory of the next script:

file: testdbf.prg

use dbftable
list columnname

1. download from http://www.fabforce.net/
I get DBDesigner4-0.5.4-0.i586.rpm
2. apt-get install rpm alien
3. alien --to-deb DBDesigner4-0.5.4-0.i586.rpm
you must get a file: dbdesigner4_0.5.4-1_i386.deb
4. dpkg -i dbdesigner4_0.5.4-1_i386.deb
5. fix missing simlinks
ln -s /usr/lib/DBDesigner4/libsqlmy.so /usr/lib/
6. from http://cesar.plug.org.ve/?p=41 :

wget http://www.chorse.org/junkroom/xlibs-dummy/xlibs_6.8.2-77_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i xlibs_6.8.2-77_all.deb