Tony,

<< I've used DBISAM in client/server mode on SBS2K3 standard & premium boxes
and the performance has been very good. I'm using Delphi 5 though and Tom
said his app was developed with Delphi 7 - could that be an issue? >>

Not that I'm aware of.  Delphi 7 is pretty close to Delphi5, and nothing has
changed between the two with respect to the client comms layer that would
account for that.  Also, the stock DBISAM server is compiled with Delphi 5
to keep the code size small.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com