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.

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.

In what many interpret as a way of getting out from under Oracle's thumb, MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database.

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 ...

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 ...