Paul--

This whitepaper was very helpful. Thank you.

--Jekke

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Beach [mailto:pbeach@...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:34 AM
To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Firebird-general] New implementation

> If you were presenting Firefox as an alternative to SQL Server, what
> would your selling points be? We've already talked the benefits of

open

> source vs. commercial products to death without a conclusion, so

that's

> not going to sell it.
>
> What features of SQL Server am I going to miss if we use Firebird? Is
> there support for complex data types? Extended stored procedures?

Native

> XML support?

I suggest you have a look at the following, yes I know InterBase isn't
Firebird
and vice versa, but there are still significant similarities, and this
would
probably be a good starting point.

http://www.borland.com/products/white_papers/pdf/ib_vs_SQLServer.pdf

Regards
Paul



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