Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 13th Nov 2006 03:17 UTC, submitted by samyem
After 2 years in development, the Firebird Project today officially releases the much-anticipated version 2.0 of its open source Firebird relational database software during the opening session of the fourth international Firebird Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
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RE[3]: Whats special?
by mauriciolongo on Mon 13th Nov 2006 10:35
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http://www.firebirdnews.org/docs/fb2min.html
basically it's a fully featured sql server that can be embedded. Various commercial software packages use variants of firebird or it's commercial cousin from Borland. Veritas is the big one that I know of.
Read the link...that's basically why you should use it over mysql...but then again mysql isn't a competitor when it comes to true sql database engines.