> Any1 know of any database package avaliable for linux > ... to be installed in desktop... Computer Associates have opensourced the Ingres RDBMS. Check out http://opensource.ca.com/projects/ingres/ > Jus experimenting .... think its interesting to have 1 Mysql and Postgresql are widely used on the linux platfom (even on production systems). IBM has also released its Cloudscape database to the open source community under the name Derby. If you are interested in a pure Java DBMS implementation (eg for embedded use within J2SE and J2EE apps) Derby is the way to go. HTH -- -- Hari
