thanks,

But it's not firebirds capabilites that come into question. we are having
trouble with quick reports in Delphi, because it seems to have fallen into
neglect from the developers. The fear of losing that has sortof transferre,
perhaps, over to Firebird: it's small, will it lose its support and development
as well.

It's not me questioning it. I realize that being OS development is likely to be
slower than a big commercial product, but unlikely to be canned by a managmement
decision. So if it has a big development team, I can say, See, all these people
are doing it because they love it and they will fix any bugs our customer may
report.

== Mark