[thelist] Database Licensing Question

[Burhan Khalid]

Manuel González Noriega wrote:
>>   Does someone have any suggestions for other database backends that I
>>can research?  The coding language has not been decided yet, but it will
>>be a tossup between .NET (C#) and Java.
>>
>>   Any guidance recieved graciously,
> 
> 
> Have you considered SQLite? (1) Free and lightweight and it's PHP5 new
> best friend (2), so it can't be too bad
> 
> (1) http://www.sqlite.org/
> (2) http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-sqlite.php

Well, this will be an application (ie, non-web based), which is why I'm 
trying to stay away from PHP.