Stuart 'Zen' Bishop <zen@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:

My impression was PostgreSQL was that its main acceptance problem was lack of marketing. If I had to ship a product tied to an no-cost RDBMS I'd go with PostgreSQL or possibly Gadfly (havn't looked into its feature set).

yep, IMHO postgresql is the best open-source database. ok, mysql is a lot faster but then it lacks important sql-features (triggers, transactions, etc.) and it's not even open-source/gpl. gadfly is a little bit too simple for as it only implements a very small subset of sql92. i can only recommend postgresql-6.5.2 if you need an open-source no-cost database for some projects. try to keep your sql as standard as possible because then you can switch to oracle by simple replacing the zpostgresda by zoracleda... thilo -- mezger@innominate.de innominate AG networking people fon: +49.30.308806-11 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/tm