> As far as server hardware goes, for a Linux environment, using

Firebird 2.0.1 Classic, what's

> a good recommended processor configuration.
>
> We have mostly used Xeon's and been relatively happy, but are

looking into the dual and

> quad cores. Will Firebird take advantage of these?

The Classic Server model (under any OS) will allow different
connections to simultaneously run on different CPUs/Cores. It also
allows other applications CPU time which you would have otherwise had
to share under a single processor, so yes there is benefit to it for
most applications.

Adam