Hi Lester,

> Am I the only person who is getting irritated by the criticism that
> Firebird is not very good as a single user built in database engine?

Dunno - works fine for me... What do these people
expect?

> I came to Interbase because I wanted I good client/server setup and my
> single user dbase (Codebase) based systems are STILL being installed and
> used without any problem.
>
> While I can see the advantage of only having to support one database
> file format. Most of the people who have been asking for an embedded
> version will never use that file other than in the single user

application.

>
> Do we need to spend time trying to full fill everybodies requirements
> with an engine that is simply NOT a single user engine. The next
> complaints will be that it could be speeded up if some of the facilities
> only used by multi user systems are removed.
>
> Is this something that needs outlining on the 'roadmap' and people
> pointed somewhere else when their requirements simply do not need
> anything more than a flat file engine :)
>
> I find that where I use Firebird on a single machine, it's nice to be
> able to log in and fix things remotely, so I personally will never be
> looking for the knobbled version ;)

*g*

Perhaps these people are looking at Firebird while they should
be looking at something else?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com