Are you perchance not correctly subscribed to this list?; you might want to re-subscribe by sending a message to users+subscribe@global.libreoffice.org Hi Tom, in fact, if I am right, the decision on change the database backend to Firebird, has been taken, look in: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Support_for_Firebird_Database_in_Base https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51780 In the first link is clearly explained what are the reasons for change "causes severe performance problems primarily around the frequency of Java to C++ transitions", so I think it is no too much to say. Regards Miguel Ángel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted