Linux Stand Alone Database?

[Brett Kirksey]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 at 11:37+0800, John wrote:

> The use of an external DB engine is a good thing. So long as
> the software writer pays attention, the application is
> pretty-well automatically multiuser.
> 
> It also meas that someone who can tell the difference between
> a fast file manager (mySQL) and a relational DBMS such as
> Postgresql, DB2 etc can choose to use something that
> understands transactions, relational integrity, foreign keys
> and maybe even money.

As I said in my original post:

    "I know all the pluses and minuses of FileMaker, and that's not
    the issue."
    
But I knew some person wouldn't be able to resist the "but
there's a better way" comment. My faith in the passionate
beliefs of Linux users isn't dashed. :-)

Brett