The open source project, which was created when Borland open sourced Interbase in 2000, is due to release a version of its database with full SMP support allowing enterprises greater scalability.

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Firebird—an open-source relational database known for ...

MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database—in addition to scooping up Starkeys one-man Firebird-based company, ...

FireBird is an open-source RDBMS (such as MySQL), which runs on Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. FireBird scores better than MySQL since it supports triggers, procedures, UDFs (User Defined ...

Firebird distills its identity into the phrase "True universal open-source database" and boasts not only of being "free like free beer" but also, fittingly, of being "free like a bird". The latter ...

After a heated war of words with a fellow open-source development group, Mozilla.org appears to be backing down on its use of the name "Firebird" for future releases of its browser. The dispute began ...

Firebird developers are due to do an alpha release of version 2.0 of the open source database later this month and have completed work on SMP support, which is due to be released in late spring.