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Hi Bo, > I would have a hard time installing anything but the MS SQL-2000 on my > servers for example. Using MySql is not viable due to their licensing > requirements and all other alternatives are rather expensive too. Without wanting to start a toolsize war, another alternative is PostgresQL, which is free and is fast and very powerful. Here's a real-world performance comparison done by Tim Perdue of SourceForge: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3 It's a bit old now - both MySQL and PostgresQL have advanced since then, but I believe PostgresQL is still ahead. One big issue is native Windows support. That's starting to come out now: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/Windows http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/3344 Mitch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ The information contained in this message and any attachments is confidential and intended for the named recipient(s). If you have received this message in error, please contact sender by return e-mail and destroy the message and any attachments. Any opinions or undertakings expressed in this message are those of the individual sender except where the sender expressly and with authority states them to be the opinions of Extel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------