Goldmine to rise from the ashes of BDE

Yes it finally looks like it will happen, Goldmine will rid itself of the BDE and Dbase restraints that have been tying it to the database technologies of the 80s...

Frontrange have made the move to migrate all versions of it's CRM software to Relational SQL databases in the next version.

The standard architecture that relied heavily on easily corruptable Dbase tables has been replaced by ADO connections. For those systems that used to rely completely on Dbase to run, they have decided on using the OpenSource Firebird SQL as the Database Solution.

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981.
Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000 under the InterBase Public License v.1.0.

Although they haven't moved completely away from Borland family opting for a SQL database based on Borland source, it's a long awaited step to a reliable and administerable database solution.