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Tony, Just went to download the free DB2 and although the description sounds great when I got to perform the download the licence agreement has the following lines near the end of it. ... Program Name: DB2 Universal Database Express-C Version 8.2 Program Number: EVAL/TRIAL Authorization for Use on Home/Portable Computer: The Program may be stored on the primary machine and another machine, provided that the Program is not in active use on both machines at the same time. ... This doesn't sound like the sort of thing I should be using for a production server or am I reading that all wrong? Andy. "Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote in message news:dsa860$2oh$1 at paris.nodomain.org... > Andy Southby wrote: >> Thanks Tony, >> >> I think the free version of DB2 sound like what I need, shame I could not >> stay with open source though. My company has not used version control >> before and I have been trying for two years to perswade them away from >> the dark side. :) Now I have, I have no budget! So untill convinced by >> the results it will have to be free all the way. > > You could try postgres... the problem I had is it crapped all over > system32 and broke stuff. That was a year ago though... they've probably > fixed that by now (need to check actually, since there are a couple of > fixes needed to the driver). > > Tony