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Luigi D. Sandon wrote: > MSDE and MS SQL Express: > > 1) Are not cross-plaform > 2) Database size is limite (4 GB in SQL Express 2005) > 3) Can't use SMP. > 4) Are a bit "heavy" anyway - install them on the same machine of CVSNT and > a good slice of RAM has gone. > > >>Also the freebie Oracle versions... > > > ? AFAIK there is nothing free from Oracle. Oracle at least is > cross-platform, but it can be expensive. > Oracle downloads are free for development (http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html) but not for deployment. OTOH I think it's too complex for most people... I'd expect people who used that to be using it internally & have a trained DBA already. It's really not an either/or choice... the database API is quite simple and if someone has a favourite database implementing an interface to it is quite fast. My intention is to support as many databases as I can reasonably maintain. Tony