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Firebird News » Firebird, nee Interbase — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:45:56 +0000

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By: sky_khan

sky_khan — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:11:57 +0000

IMHO, most enjoying feature of Firebird is its architecture (MGA). It simplifies things much vs other way (locking). Combining this with triggers and SP’s you can do a lot of things in Firebird with ease. So it is simple, easy to use, has small footprint and low resource requirements. Needs minimal administration: install and forget it, it just works. May be not suitable for big enterprise in its current state but it can easily handle 100+ simultaneous clients on LAN environment (with a low-end server)

By: Carlos H. Cantu

Carlos H. Cantu — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:35:40 +0000

You can check most of the highlights of Firebird looking at the paper “Got to know Firebird in 2 minutes” available at http://www.firebirdnews.org/docs/fb2min.html.

Another paper to check: http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_enterprise_firebird

By: mariuz

mariuz — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:21:10 +0000

some of the modern features will be implemented in 2.0 release , other in the 3.0

here are some of the replies to that article (is just an rant by the way - the reality is looking better for firebird )

http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=566

By: Craig Stuntz

Craig Stuntz — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:56:57 +0000

Firebird is a fork of InterBase 6.0 Open Edition. InterBase continues to be developed as a commercial product (http://www.borland.com/interbase/). For a fast overview of why InterBase is significant, see this article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterBase

InterBase has been updated significantly in the past few years, but Borland no longer does Open Source releases. Firebird is quite different from InterBase at this point.