Hello Jekke,

> We're looking at giving Firebird a try in the office soon and I've been
> looking over the wealth of tools available for administering a Firebird
> database. Short of downloading, installing, and trying all of them, it's
> pretty hard to tell which one is going to meet our needs.
>
> We're a mixed-OS shop, but most Firebird work will be done on Windows.
> All of the people who will be working on Firebird have some experience
> with Microsoft SQL Server. Is there an admin tool out there that is
> similar in look and feel to SQL Server's Enterprise Manager and SQL
> Query Analyzer? Ultimately, we'll choose a tool based on other criteria
> but, for now, we'd like to keep the learning curve as gentle as
> possible.

It doesn't resemble MS SQL Server tools, but it sure is easy to
use: Database Workbench ( www.upscene.com ). It runs on
Windows but can - of course - connect to Firebird on Linux.
If you run Linux on the desktop, this tool works fine with Wine
and Win4Lin (so I am told).

With regards,

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