RE: [DUG-DB]: What cheap databases are any good?

[Phil Scadden]

> as my preference, does anyone have any (recent) reasons NOT to go with
> Interbase?  How fast is it?  How robust is it?

Killer for me has always been lack of support for it by crucial third-party systems
(eg ArcInfo) which certainly wont be everyones problems and with ADO, is largely
a unix problem. I would worry about scalability over a certain size. How do you
configure optimal multi-spindle configurations, etc.

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