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My own personal notes: VistaDB has supported the FWDNUG in the past - sending us a couple of free copies to hand out as prizes. Additionally - I've been interested in their product because of it's small footprint, performance, and ease of deployment. Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to utilize VistaDB in any projects yet. If I ever build a distributable winforms app that I need to deploy to a lot of desktops - you can bet I'll be taking advantage of VistaDB and it's XCOPY deployment. Especially with SQL Server Express 2005 not entirely living up to my deployment expectations.