Databases

[Mike Maltese]

> I have a small business and I'm looking to setup a freebsd server.  I
> want to connect about 4 clients to this server running windows XP.  The
> Freebsd server will keep a database of every customer address, phone
> number, what services that were performed, how much was charged, etc
> etc.  This is basically all I need for now and I was wondering which
> opensource database would do this in the easiest possible way.  Also
> what software would I use in the client boxes to access this database
> (input and output).

My suggestion would be either MySQL or PostgreSQL as both have a ODBC
clients for Windows.
http://www.mysql.com
http://www.postgresql.org