Hello Wayne,

I didn't realize that SAP DB was open-source!  Yikes, it seems that a person
can have industrial-strength databases with Firebird, SAP DB and GT.M
available for the download.  I guess that SAP's statement that they consider
database technology to be part of the underlying infrastructure is more of a
industry trend then I would have thought.

The Mozilla port is getting better and better every day.  I installed a
recent build and I was very impressed with its speed of page rendering.
SAP's FAQ to the contrary but I am sure that SAP wanted to cut down on their
development and maintenance costs for DB engine. :)

Todd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

From: Wayne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Yes, I recently bumped into that project.  It has a different name now, 
>but I forget it.   More interestingly to me was the equally recent 
>discovery that the database engine behind SAP is now open source.  This 
>makes it much like Mozilla in that SAP pays a lot of engineers to work 
>on the product full time.  www.sapdb.org

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