"That is all I have to say" - ooooh, I doubt that _very_ much. You are on Slashdot, after all :-)

We have the only submarines on the planet that can be heard from Alpha Centauri. It's not surprising we're sh*t-scared of cyberwar.

A decent DBMS will _not_ be affected by network or hardware problems.

You think that's air you're breathing? :-)

... that MySQL is the "Microsoft Access" of the FOSS world?