> IIRC:
> Some time (years!) ago, Dalton Calford described how they used
> Firebird at Distributel (telephone company in Canada). I don't have
> a copy of this here (maybe I could find it on one of my older
> pcs). It did show that Firebird can be a good choice for heavy duty
> use with high availability (99.999% uptime as required by law).


> Maybe they used IB at the time, but this shouldn't be important in
> this context.

They have since migrated to Firebird; Dalton noted this is a later
posting to the support list.


Sean