> I am running Windows XP home edition and just downloaded Firebird
> 1.5. I installed the classic version first and was unable to find the
> application even though I asked that it be installed as an
> application. I also cannot find it running in the services window in
> Control Panel. Does the Windows installer version contain an
> application that is a database or is this a program that is used on a
> server to control a database only from another computer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Townsend
> lanceman@...

You won't see it running until someone connects to a database. That's how
classic works.
Superserver is a service running and waiting for users.. Classic is just a
daemon (xinet?) which waits to hear from a potential client, then fires up a
Firebird thread to connect and run until you disconnect again at which time
it dies and waits again.

Firebird is a database server. You create databases and it negotiates your
queries to the database. You will need client tools to do a whole host of
things including creating databases.

> [it] is this a program that is used on a
> server to control a database only from another computer?

or it can run on your single PC and do the same job.
Alan