At 09:51 PM 30/03/2006, you wrote:

>I'm planning to outsource 3 Firebird 1.5 Databases from an Windows
>2000 Server to a new PC as dedicated Database Server. If I use Windows
>XP Pro on the new system (sure to save licence costs), is it possible
>to get performance problems because of the count of clients?

No.

>There are 7 clients with 5 connections to 3 Databases on each machine.

That's OK.

>Can anybody tell me: will the performance be slower if i use Windows
>XP pro as if I use Windows 2003 Server for that machine ?

No.

./hb