Anyone have any experience with FireBird
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Since SQL Servre is kinda expensive (5000 euro's per processor), and we don't want to obligate our customers to do that investment, even though SQL Server is, in my opinion, the only way to go. One of my colleagues came across an Interbase offspring called FireBird, which is open-source and is based on the Interbase code released a long while back by Borland. It looks promising, but it's not there yet as far as I can see. It has a .NET connector already, so switching shouldn't be a big problem...
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Since SQL Servre is kinda expensive (5000 euro's per processor), and we don't want to obligate our customers to do that investment, even though SQL Server is, in my opinion, the only way to go. One of my colleagues came across an Interbase offspring called FireBird, which is open-source and is based on the Interbase code released a long while back by Borland. It looks promising, but it's not there yet as far as I can see. It has a .NET connector already, so switching shouldn't be a big problem...
If it is mission critical I would be more inclined to go with something more proven. I use sql Server and Mysql. Mysql is a really good open source database with a lot of documentation and users behind it - worth checking out. Were I to start a business today I would most likely go with Mysql over Sql Server. B