Hi,

> I'm a beginner at all this, but I would say that we are looking to
> run database on a cluster of machines in such a way that they all
> **share** the load. This, I am assuming, will also provide failover
> for free - if one of them crashes, the others will carry on.
>
> Any ideas on how to implement this with Firebird, and what tools
> would help?

Consider checking the http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/, but this would
work only for Java. I have not tested that with JayBird, but should
work. If you have problems with it, please post your questions to
Firebird-Java list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Firebird-Java/).

Roman