>
> --- 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

there has been talk of this but nothing implemented yet
Alan