My 2 cents:
I've been using IB/FB since IB 5.x and FB 1.0x (working on getting to 1.5).
Currently on FB 1.0x using Delphi 6/IBO all on Windows servers and
peer-to-peer networks. I will definitely admit the application was not
written in the cleanest way, it has evolved over several years. I'm working
on code clean-up, especially transaction clean-up as we speak.

I have a fairly low volume of sales but high dollar amount and high
transactions at each sight. It's a full order processing, inventory,
general ledger and financial reporting system. The only time in 6+ years
I've had a corrupted database was due to a bad hard drive. And thanks to
Helen's book, I was able to recover pretty painlessly (just a little
downtime for the users) with no data loss.

I do have automated nightly routines to backup and sweep the database.

I am an independent developer so this kind of reliability is crucial and all
my clients have no IT personnel on-site.

Long live FB!

Kevin


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From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant Brown
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:54 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Concern with FB


Actually Martijn, those conditions are not far from being the norm for
small to medium business that we deal with on a day to day basis.

Oh the joys of dealing with clients :-) or should that be :-(

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Regards,
Grant Brown

Product Development Manager
Phone : 02 4229 1185
Mobile : 0412 926 995
Email : grant@...
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