On 2/5/2010 9:35 AM, Alan McKay wrote: >> Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready >> by a long way... > > that would eliminate it for me What's the difference for a basically-embedded piece of an application? But, looking at the complexity needed to manage a single OS version that already has pre-packaged, versioned applications and is designed for network use, it makes me thing there is something fundamentally wrong with the underlying system tools and concepts. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com