--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
wrote:

> Firebird has a very "chatty" protocol and has never been a good

candidate

> for anything but LAN client server work without the extra hard yards
> invested into the comms/cache layer(s).
>

Don't I remember reading that FB2.1 will show a significant reduction
in chattiness, and better WAN performance?

Roger Vellacott
Passfield Data Systems Ltd