RE: [Firebird-devel] firebird in top of downloaded databases - linuxsoft.cz

[Si C. <sim...@te...>]

 

> -----Original Message-----
> while reading one article saw firebird was on top of 
> downloaded databases
> 
> http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_list.php?id_kategory=114
> 

I liked the beginning of the description for MySQL: "very fast (for
reading)", The implication being speed in other areas is slow (insert update
etc).  On a serious note though the description for FB starts very well, but
5 years on does it still need this suffix:

"It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since
1981. Firebird 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) under the
InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000."

this suffix sounds (imo) like the standard government warnings you hear
after amazing mortgage deals on the radio :-)

Rgds

Si Carter
http://www.tectsoft.net/