[Derek Basch]
I too try to stay MS free but the product I am designing is MS dependent. I am having a bear of a time getting Firebird/Interbase to work with zope. (No examples/docs I can find after 3 days of googling) I suppose this is where a Storage and Programming background rather than a Network Engineering background would come in handy. (Sighs and clears space in brain for learning Storage....).
I tried to use Firebird about a year ago and couldn't get it to work right. Nothing to do with Zope. I forget just what it was, perhaps the odbc driver. I ended up using Interbase instead (I found a driver for it), and that worked fine with Zope using the odbc adapter. By now, the wrinkles have probably been ironed out and Firebird probably would work if I tried it again. See if you can get the database working in Windows using odbc - there are a few free interactive tools you can use to get data in and out of it, I think. Once it is working with odbc, you should be able to use it in Zope. Cheers, Tom P