Firebird is a RDBMS
offering many ANSI SQL standard features that run on
Linux, Windows and a
variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers concurrency,
high performance and powerful language support for stored procedures and
triggers. Firebird is open source and as such, it
is completely free of any registration, licensing or deployment fees. It may be
deployed freely for use with any third-party software, whether commercial or
not.
The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and
C++ programmers, technical advisors and
supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database
management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known
as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000. It has been used in production
systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.
Firebird Web site The Firebird software is free. That means anyone can build a custom version of it, as long as that person or organisation is willing to provide the modifications, under the same IDPL licensing, for others to use.
LinuxWorld: Analysis: Open source databases Until recently, databases have been a relative unknown amongst open source software. However, the increasing adoption of open source database technology by well-known multinational organizations has led to more enterprise recognition and hence consideration.
