This is a question that interests me very much (actually, the answer
more so than the question).

This is my situation:

We are planning to ship a suite of desktop software products that will
also install Firebird 2.0 SS on the desktop. We initially thought
about using the embedded version of the database, but since we want to
have multiple applications access this database, we need to install
the SS version instead.

The nature of our products is that the user really has no idea that
Firebird is even on the system; they are really just using our
products which happen to use a local Firebird database in the
background. Therefore the existence and maintenance of Firebird itself
needs to be 'silent' as far as the user is concerned.

Of course, we would like to play properly in the 'sandbox', so we need
to deal with the scenario where FB 2.0 is already installed by another
application, OR if an earlier version of FB (1.5 for example) is
installed. If FB 2.0 is already there, then that's a nice solution
since we can piggy back on that (although the user rights etc. still
need to be dealt with).

We also need to deal with the situation where FB 1.5 (or earlier) is
also installed. From the sounds of this thread... that could be a more
significant roadblock.

What would be the set of 'best practices' for this scenario?

Thx!

Greg

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "prairiedechien"
<Christophe.Brunin@...> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
>
> Can you confirm that it is not possible to run 2 FB servers as 2
> different services?
>
> Thanks
> Christophe.
>