Hi,

At October 30, 2003, 07:55, anonymvonanonym wrote:

> No.1 Are there any freeware / MPL components availible for firebird ?

Yes there is. Take a look at ZeosLib(http://www.zeoslib.net/).

> No.2 How do I distribute firebird with my application ?

There is an install application available.

> No.3 What happens if the use already has firebird installed on his
> machine ?

You don't install it, unless the one that is installed is a previous
version and your application requires the newer version.

> Can 2 Firebird servers run at the same time ?

It should be made possible with the final release of Firebird 1.5, but
do you really need 2 FB 1.5 instances running at the same time.
Especially, if the user's system doesn't have much system resources
available.

> Somebody suggested on another forum that I should ask if there is an
> embedded version of the SQL server ?

There is one under Firebird 1.5.

> Now not being 100% clear on what
> an embedded version is , I am assumin it would be firebird compiled
> into my application ?

No. It's a DLL that you use. It has the same API functions as the
client DLL, so you can swap the normal client for the embedded DLL.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)