HI Artur,

> How do you think that people that deploy Oracle or Microsoft SQL
> applications do? Give a message to the user asking 'do you want me to
> remove Oracle since I don't use it anymore?'

That's one of the reasons I decided to use Interbase (and later Firebird).
It's easier to deploy - I thought. If I had the chance I would switch to a
desktop database. Most of my problems/error come from the fb-server
installation/concurrency with other installations.

> I know that Firebird allows much more flexibility, but just don't forget
> that we are talking about a database server. If you have an user with a
> server, he must take care of it, and have the knolewdge to at least
> understand what is installed in his server.

As I explaned/showed before the main problems are the non-dedicated servers.
We are talking about small - very small - companies. They don't have
it-professionals. And they are real dummies regarding to computers. They do
not know what a server is. So I can't expect them to know about a DB-Server!
My competitors also don't. The other problem is that the other applications
don't tell them that they use a DB-Server they simply install
Firebird/Interbase - that's it. So how can they know that/if they use a
firebird-server or not.

> For a client/server app, let's take all the precautions about it. If you
> are going to remove your application, just inform the user about
> Firebird and let him decide, default 'no'. As simple as that.

That's a good idea. I'll give it a try.

> Firebird is always needed in a computer. How can you live
> without it? ;-)

That's true :-)


With regards
Thomas