On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 06:06, Johan van Zyl wrote:

> Johan,
>
> Thank you for contacting us.
>
> Firebird is a relational database server and as such forms part of the
> basic infrastructure provided by an ISP. We have no experience with
> this product in terms of its robustness, scalability, security
> requirements, resource usage, etc.
>
> It would therefore be irresponsible for us to offer such a
> infrastructure component without extensive testing and operational
> sizing.
>
> As we already offer MS SQL and Jet (access) data access services, we
> regrettably will not able to offer firebird hosting.

Considering that Firebird is part of your user requirements, it's clear
that, that particular ISP is not willing to even consider it's users
requirements, and therefore the only sensible reply is NEXT.

Paul