More New-be Curiousity Questions

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Thanks! That link on comparisons between Dreamcard and Revolution is just  
what I needed!
_http://www.runrev.com/section/platform.php_ 
(http://www.runrev.com/section/platform.php) 
 
Questions: 
 
1.) If I spend a year developing some great application in Dreamcard, then  
is moving it to Revolution simply a matter of purchasing Revolution (will the  
same source code produced run in either environment)?
 
2.) If I want to use MySQL, I am assuming that the MySQL in any of the  
several WAMP (WIndows Apache MySQL PhP) installs will do the trick, or is there  a 
special MySQL install I should do?
 
3.) If I develop an application using MySQL, using commonly available SQL  
commands, and staying away from proprietary things, is it then much of a job to  
switch that application to Oracle as a back end?
 
4.)  Does Revolution/Dreamcard give one a way to, lets say, present a  
dialogue similar to Explorer, choose a path, choose a file, and then open that  
WIndows file and read and write to it randomly, byte by byte?  I have  something 
in Liberty Basic which does that. Just curious if anyone in this list  uses 
Liberty Basic or has any opinions pro or con?
 
5.) When I download a trial version of Dreamcard or Revolution, is it ok to  
download at work, where I have a fast T1, put it on a cd, and install and 
unlock  at home (where I have slow dial-up) and then just enter the unlock key?
 
6.) Are there many or any people who develope applications in Dreamcard  
which access the .mdb Jet Engine database used by Access (just curious), or  which 
access dbf files in a Visual Foxpro application?
 
7.) Are there any developers who left Visual Foxpro (lets say), or Visual  
Basic, and came to Revolution as a development tool, who share some of their  
experieces?
 
8.) When I finish developing an application, then is that entire  application 
expressed solely in the form of script files, viewable in any  editor, or are 
there some components of the application which are in some kind  of object or 
format which is not editable. I realize that if one  deploys/distributes 
applications, they are in some compiled or tokenized form so  the code remains 
proprietary. That is not what I am asking.  I am thinking  that if the final 
application is defined by editable files of coding/script,  then it is possible to 
write a program in some language to output that code,  whereas if the final 
application has template files which are not plain ascii  script, then it would 
not be easy to programatically output a script file.   I am asking this 
question mainly out of curiosity, to get a feeling for what a  finished application 
is like, in source form.
 
9.)  Is there a data type which is fixed point penny accurate BCD type  
decimal arithematic, which would allow accurate calculations with money in a  
buisness application.
Is there a floating point type of variable?  
 
10.) I stumbled across Dreamcard/Revolution while I was searching for  
information on Python.  I had downloaded a version of Python yesterday, and  when I 
ran it, was somewhat startled to see a DOS type black window open up. Is  
Revolution related to Python in any way?  Does Dreamcard/Revolution  development 
happen right in Windows, just like, e.g. Visual Basic IDE, or does  it take 
place in one of those black DOS Windows.
 
11.) When I purchase Dreamcard/Revolution, do I receive a box with  CD,s   
and are the video training portions on a DVD, or VHS, or how  does that work? 
Just curious.
 
Thanks for your time!