A new survey shows that enterprise database managers are taking to Firebird, an open-source relational database known for sizzling transaction performance.

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.

If your enterprise is looking into which open-source database to try out, do your due diligence and add Firebird to the list of candidates.

As another example, if you want to shift the database for your accounting package to an RDBMS and want to do that for free, you can try FireBird.

FireBird is an open-source RDBMS (such as MySQL), which runs on Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. FireBird scores better than MySQL since it supports triggers, procedures, UDFs (User Defined ...

While high-profile open-source efforts like MySQL and PostgreSQL slug it out with the big four commercial databases, a Tasmanian newspaper is betting on the lesser-known Firebird SQL server for ...

Updated versions of the Firebird database plug DoS gaps and a leak that may allow access to encrypted data.

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 ...