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[Ted Roche]

I would welcome experiences and opinions (like I have to ask!) on the
various database backends available. I've had 15+ years of Windows
experience with xBase DBFs and a fair number with SQL Server and Oracle and
a little with Informix. I'm looking into some business applications with
Free/Open Source databases, and would like to hear positives and negative
experiences, killer features or showstoppers with:

- mySQL - fast with ISAM, transactional, no stored procedures
- PostgreSQL 
- Firebird
- Adabase
- others?

I'm hoping to provide cross-platform access: Windows via ODBC, Mac OS X and
Linux via libraries or JDBC.

What's the state of the art, level of support in the communities,
availability of third-party tools, etc.? 

Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com