At 01:58 PM 19/04/2005 +0200, you wrote:

>Stefan,
>
> > I'm planing on releasing one of our products on a usb memory which
> would come
> > with our application preinstalled and ready to run right of the stick.
> > That would give
> > the customer opportunity to bring the application with him wherever he
> > goes just bring the memory and you got everything in place.
> > Anyhow back to the my question is there anyone that used this approach
> > before since
> > you can use DB in read only mode on cdroms and so on but I need write
> > access also,
> > anyone with any experiences?
>
>I've my small CRM application with Firebird Embedded on a 256 MB USB
>stick. Works like a charm.

I have too - both with the full server and embedded + database +
application - either way, it's just "plug-and-play". However, I cannot
think of a more insecure way to deploy a database system.

Helen