To add another war story: back in 2004 I was in the position of having to write software for a very, very underpowered barcode terminal running ucLinux (the int

To add another war story: back in 2004 I was in the position of having to write software for a very, very underpowered barcode terminal running ucLinux (the intermec ck1, for those interested. Only a year later, it was discontinued (grrr) due to the EU finalizing the RoHS norm). I needed to synchronize product data from our web application with that scanner in order to display useful info instead of just scanned bar codes. Thankfully I found a patch for SQLite to work with the greatly reduced stack size in ucLinux (the site is still around here: http://www.menie.org/georges/uClinux/sqlite.html http://www.menie.org/georges/uClinux/sqlite.html) Now, after 9 years, one user is still holding on to their device and we're still synchronizing product data to that SQLite database. We never had crashes or data losses (even though recovery would be trivial) and ever since then, every subsequent hardware solution we were using always relied on SQLite for storage. I don't even want to start thinking about how much pain it would have been to write my own database for that slow ck1 monster. Seeing SQLite run on the device in my serial terminal was butch a lt of fun and a great relief as it just saved me countless hours of work. Me, I love SQLite :-)