In regard to the previous entry on tiOPF and MySQL, a course on OOP programming in Delphi might be useful reviewing. Combine this with tiOPF's TtiDataset, separate the user interfaces from the business logic using OOP and you can start creating killer applications with virtually any database in the backend.

tiOPF is an Open Source Object Persistance Framework for Delphi. However there was no support for MySQL. Zeos was already experimentaly included, but only for firebird. Although it's very preliminary code with almost no testing done, the basics of a persistance layer for MySQL in tiOPF has now been created by yours truly. Have a look in the binary newsgroup of tiOPF. I still have to verify the different fieldtypes returned by Zeoslib. The tiOPF demo's seems work at first glance... Feel to test it out.

I've written a little help for new Kylix Users. Just to get you started. Head over to the sections to learn programmming your own applications in Linux.