At 06:12 AM 19/03/2008, you wrote:

>If I'm installing Firebird on a single machine is there any advantage
>to installing the server vs. the embedded version?

If you're talking about Windows and client/server:

Horses for courses. Each model has its own purposes.

The advantage of embedded is compactness and ease of installation and upgrading. It's a model for deploying a single-user package with no frills and no server-level authentication.

But
Develop with the full server version.

But if the user needs to run different applications over the same database simultaneously, or the database ever needs to be connected to across a LAN or WAN by e.g. a replication server, then embedded isn't an option.

Different rules apply to embedded on Linux.

./hb