> p.s. I notice in the road map, multithreading is coming in a separate

Vulcan

Not multi-threading, but better multithread with SMP/hyperthreading
support.

> release to be merged into the main release in late 2005. With the number

of

> hyperthreaded / dual core / multi processor machines that will be on the
> desktop by then it seems a bit late in the picture.

Now, what would be a sensible answer to this...

How about: care to build it yourself?

Or: care to hand over a bag of $$ so that more people can devote
time to this?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com