MSDE is ok for free, but since we sell this product and make a down load
evaluation available, customers expect a one click setup. Nope, no on MSDE
(plus it's 60+MB).
VistaDB looks promising, royalty free licensing, small foot print, but
currenly not ODBC or OLEDB (it's all .NET). They are comming out with a
OLEDB bridge though. BUT, in version 2.0, no stored procs till version 3.
Looking into MySQL, they have an embedded solution.
So here is our with list:
Ability to run client side and scale up to true client / server. Small
footprint is good, seamless setup, our customer wouldn't know any
difference
between the sql version we want and the current JET version we have. As
low
cost on the licensing or royalty free licensing we can manage. Good DB
Management tools. ODBC/OLEDB connector (we are VB6 coders).
Thanks for any input in advance,
Mark.
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