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Firebird and MySQL are almost neck-and-neck as they vie to be the most widely deployed open source database product, according to a survey released on Thursday. Paul Beach, an administrator of the ...

Firebird distills its identity into the phrase "True universal open-source database" and boasts not only of being "free like free beer" but also, fittingly, of being "free like a bird". The latter ...

Firebird developers are due to do an alpha release of version 2.0 of the open source database later this month and have completed work on SMP support, which is due to be released in late spring.