# 1st environment (Mac Book Pro running OS X [10.5.5]):
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# specs:
    2GB RAM;  150 GB HD
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# NOTE:  I downloaded the production-ready version of mysql.
Macintosh:~ user$ ls -l Desktop/mysql-5.0.67-osx10.5-x86.dmg 
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user  user  58004600 Oct 25 10:38 Desktop/mysql-5.0.67-osx10.5-x86.dmg
Macintosh:~ user$ uname -a
Darwin Macintosh.local 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep  3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Macintosh:~ user$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.67, for apple-darwin9.0.0b5 (i686) using readline 5.1
Macintosh:~ user# python -V
Python 2.5.1
Macintosh:~ user$

# 2nd environment (HP Pavillion a1250n running Linux [Knoppix 5.3]):
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# specs:
    4GB RAM;  1 TB HD (N/A since mysql here runs in a live CD environment)
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# NOTE:  I used the version of mysql and OpenOffice that shipped with Knoppix 5.3.
# NOTE:  I compiled mysql-5.1.29-rc, reran the tests (with one change [remove 'local' from last query in python script]), and got the same results.
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ uname -a
Linux Knoppix 2.6.24.4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 25 21:35:28 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ python -V
Python 2.4.5
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ openoffice -h 2>&1 | head -n 3
OpenOffice.org 2.3  680m9(Build:9238)

Usage: soffice [options] [documents...]
knoppix@Knoppix:~$