Paul,

> Hmmmm, theres an idea for the Firebird project to make some extra cash, a
> CD with Linux O/S, just enough Linux to make the OS usable, no compilers,
> no GUI, leave out all of the usual junk that comes with it, plus
> Firebird, and maybe webmin for administration.

This remind me that a webmin module for Firebird is something that could
help us. A simple module for a start, to allow the user to start/stop the
server, changing firebird.conf parameters, and so on. One of small things
I'll like to see at add-ons tree. :-)

We must expect much more web-developers with version 1.5. The increase of
speed in connections will help us on this.

I don't know about the market for this, but I think a lot about it. I have
lots of experience with NAS (Network Atached Storage) devices [my company
distributes SnapServers for some years now], and I always ask about the
market for a (maybe inventing the expression now) NAD device - a Network
Attached Database. A black box with a small operating system in rom,
Firebird included, optimized for database use.

I think Firebird will be the only *possible/reliable* solution for this kind
of device if there is a market for this. Of course we will need other
things, like a very good ODBC driver.

Just dreaming about it. :-)

Artur