Apparently enterprises are warming up to open source database Firebird in surprisingly strong numbers. It's seeing a lot of use in embedded devices, point of sale systems, etc.
I remember there was a name dispute with Mozilla (Firefox was called Firebird during one of its name changes.)
A little more background:
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. 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) on 25 July, 2000 under the InterBase Public License v.1.0.
A link to the article is here:
Enterprises Warming Up to Firebird
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