Hi, the OpenSource GPL'd version of InterBase 6.01 is called Firebird and is available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird
On Hannover CeBit'2002 I talked to a guy from MySQL AB. It was the time the Firebird 1 release was delayed because of errors in the SQL engine. The guy told me he knew about the problem because MySQL follows the development of InterBase respective Firebird since it potentially would be a concurrent if more people knew about it. MySQL IMHO very much develops it's feature-richness towards InterBase keeping it's own simplicity. InterBase for instance knows subselects but why use a complicated subselect if a MySQL (LEFT) JOIN is so fast and easy to write? Just my two Euro-cents :-) Regards Bernhard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Clewett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rusch (ext) Reiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Inandjo Taurel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: Re: AW: InterBase vs. Mysql > Here there are very little competitive DBMS systems. But there are > some, and more each day. PostgreSQL, MSDE, SapDB, OpenInterbase (or > what ever it's called). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
