New Post: Roadmap of next major release?

You can call it a "refine" since we are mostly changing styling, icons and colors. Moving a few things to new places. Overall the C1 Console will look less like Microsoft Office 2007 and more like "modern web app". When the ground work is in place, we would try to improve the user experience in key areas like inserting C1 Functions in content, working with media files (a media browser, better media selection overview).

MySql DataProvider

Have you seen http://www.composite.net/Add-on-Market/Packages/Composite.Tools.SqlServerDataProvider ?