> Or how about going on a Norse God search...

Maybe not a good idea, we don't want to get mixed up with the RDBMS called
MIMER (http://www.mimer.com/), which funny enough - very briefly compared,
has some similarities with IB - embedded invisible nature, minimal
administration, first to implement/introduce feature - and some large
customers (Volvo ...).

I didn't know anything about the product, until 5 min. ago, where I - while
looking for an old article written by Joe Celko praising IB - stumbled over
a part in one of his columns saying, and I quote :-)

"Even the smaller SQL vendors are in the game. Sysdeco Mimer AB in Uppsala,
Sweden, presented a version of its powerful DBMS Mimer for Linux at the
Internet World exhibition in Stockholm, November 1998. You can download a
complete developer license for Linux free from the Mimer Web site
(www.mimer.com). Mimer complies with the SQL standards and is the first
product to use the SQL/PSM procedural language."

Whole stuff here: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/991307/online.shtml

"Good night and sleep thight, hope the rats won't bite
If they do, punch them until they're back and blue"... :-)

Steffen - raving again.... zzzzzzzz