Access is a single-user, desktop database, like FileMaker Pro or Phoenix (the open source database that almost no one has heard of or uses, not the open source web browser (which is now known as Firefox), which lots of people know of and use).
This statement has some potential for being a very great mis-characterization of a great client-server database: Firebird. The confusion perhaps arises because at one time Firefox (the browser) was being called Firebird. Since the Firebird database server (open-source enhancement of the Borland InterBase d/b) already was using the name, the browser folks backed down and changed the browser to Firefox. The term "Phoenix" might have come into play here because one of the major [commercial, but very generous] supporters of the Firebird RDBMS is "IBPhoenix" and the logo for Firebird is a phoenix. The Firebird support list is one of the most active you will ever see.
But Firebird, the database system, is a magnificent, fully SQL-standard compliant, rock-solid system capable of handling millions of records and hundreds of simultaneous users. APress has just published a 1000-page book on it: "The Firebird Book" by Helen Borrie. ISBN 1-59059-279-4.
I have no connection with Firebird, other than having successfully deployed applications using it.
If there is another desktop database called Phoenix (of which of course I have not heard), then this is all immaterial.
Dennis McFall
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