Beyond Proprietary Databases: Helen Borrie on the Future of Firebird

Helen Borrie: "It's a fork of a mature commercial database called InterBase. InterBase is an enterprise-level database -- Firebird is the same, but better. You'll find Firebird behind a number of Web sites, storing records for telecom companies and managing data for point-of-sales systems -- just about anywhere you might find Oracle or [Microsoft] SQL Server."