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(Unverified)Jul 12th 2006 1:35AM

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While we're on the subject of free databases, I'd recommend you check out Firebird:

http://www.firebirdsql.org/

It's open source and sees a good amount of activity from some very smart developers working for companies that have a need for a great, fast, flexible, and powerful relational database engine.

Firebird has a couple different versions, including an embedded server version which is liteweight and can be accessed via ODBC, .Net data accessors, or through a Java lib. All versions run on Windows, Linux, and many flavors of Unix.

Check it out if you're looking for a cross-platform alternative to the MS server.

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