My preference would have been MySQL, for a number of reasons, but once incorporated in a commercial application (like Amazing Charts), they require a royalty payment.
One advantage, at least to me, is that the server runs on Windows, Linux, or BSD. In my office ALL of our servers are Linux based, and running Microsoft's SQL engine means having to trust a <shudder> Microsoft server in my office. <sigh> Even so, it's LIGHTYEARS ahead of the current Microsoft Jet database engine we're on now.
While I haven't discussed this with Jon, my thinking is that this will be able to run either client/server or shared file. We'll see.
V.
