Re: [stellation-res] Some database questions, with major performance imp

[Dave Shields <shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:17:58PM +0000, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> 
> 
> (1) Inprise/Firebird (or whatever they're calling it these days). This is the
>   system that Borland open-sourced.  I've heard very little about this,
>   so I'd like to hear ay experiences that anyone has had with it. It
>   looks to have really good cross-platform support, and they seem
>  very serious about solid JDBC support, but it's currently only
>   beta.


I just used Google to locate Firebird, and their site mentions they
use the InterBase Public License v1.0, which is the same license under
 which Inprise released their code.. Unfortunately, I don't find this
license in the list of OSI approved licenses available at 
http://www.opensource.org.

dave
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Dave Shields, IBM Research, shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.