I was wondering if someone could shed some light on whether it is possible right now to run DNN 6 on MySQL. Here are my findings so far:

As far as I could find there are is only a commercial .net connector and dnn data provider for DNN from devart which only supports 4.7. ( http://www.devart.com/dotconnect/mysql/download.html )

Other than that MySQL offers all the tools and a .NET connector do run an ASP.NET website with membership on a MySQL database. ( I see a tutorial on setting up the membership part here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/connector-net-tutorials-asp-roles.html )

I read in this post ( http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Forums/forumid/118/postid/446009/scope/posts.aspx#446009 ) there is no urgency to have a dotnetnuke data provider for MySQL because MS SQL Express is free and runs DNN fine.

However it doesn't seem possible to get away from the single point of failure when using MS SQL Express. To offer high availability expensive licenses are required while all this can be offered using free solutions aswell but that would mean using MySQL.

So I before I spend lots of time researching and testing things out etc perhaps someone has done this already and knows exactly what there is to know.

Is it possible right now? Will DotNetNuke make it possible in the future? Someone got experience in creating a MySQL data provider for DNN6 and the trouble that comes with it when upgrading to new versions of DNN?