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Introduction to the Firebird Database (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal takes a look
at the Firebird database. "Firebird originally started its life as
the Borland InterBase database. As the product reached version 6.0,
Borland decided Borland the product was going to be aged out, and so the
code was released under an open-source license. Later on, however, Borland
apparently had a change of mind about aging out the product. To this day,
internally, Borland continues to develop the InterBase database, with the
latest version being 7.1. Firebird 1.0 essentially was the open-source
code behind InterBase 6.0. As of this writing, the first major development
effort of the Firebird branch is Firebird 1.5."
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firebirds Posted Feb 7, 2004 5:37 UTC (Sat) by Destructo (guest, #17736) [Link] hmmmm cool. now im going to be confused with ./firebirdoh well...
or mozilla will have to change it to teradactyl
firebirds Posted Feb 7, 2004 8:14 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] That's why Mozilla Firebird is always officially referred to that way,MOZILLA Firebird. The question came up when the rebranding was under way, and the Mozilla folks had to make it clear that they were in a different namespace to avoid trademark infringement. Likewise, Firebird DB is now generally referred to in that manner, at least in open source circles, with the DB/Database attached, tho they were there first and don't actually HAVE to do so, in ordered to avoid trademark infringement. Likewise with the car and other brands using the term.. tho the namespace differenciation is more, in those cases. Anyway, the debate has been done to death already.. Duncan
firebirds Posted Feb 12, 2004 7:18 UTC (Thu) by droberge (subscriber, #10852) [Link] Of course, now Mozilla's re-renamed their browser to Firefox. So soon enough ./firebird will unambiguously be Firebird SQL.
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