Hi Dan,

> If you use the existing Firebird server, what happens
> when the customer decides to uninstall the other application,
> and that uninstall also gets rid of Firebird? For that matter,
> your own uninstall also needs to know not to uninstall Firebird
> in that case.

You are right, that's another problem! Because I cannot determine how often
firebird is realy used (i.e. still used) I never uninstall it - although I
hate that. In the future that will be a minor problem because my application
never (ok - nearly never) gets uninstalled after it's purchased and for
demo-purpose I will use the embedded version only.

I think it would have been very usefull if there has been something lie a
counter for the installation that every application could use to determine
if firebird is still needed. That shouldn't be a simple integer value it
should be a string where every app could append itselve and when
uninstalling delete itselve. If the result is empty then the FB-Server could
be uninstalled...

With regards
Thomas