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I've always been intrigued by Firebird, but I've always wondered... who uses it? Does anybody know any medium to enterprise sized users of Firebird? The featu
by mosburger 19y ago
I've always been intrigued by Firebird, but I've always wondered... who uses it? Does anybody know any medium to enterprise sized users of Firebird? The feature list is pretty impressive, but I'm still not sure why you'd choose it over MySQL or PostgreSQL, even after reading this list.
I guess licensing and footprint aren't that big of a deal to me. Perhaps that's enough for some niche of users?
- EastSmith 19y agoWho is using FB? http://www.firebirdnews.org/?cat=9 http://www.firebirdnews.org/?cat=9
- mosburger 19y agoI appreciate the effort, honestly I do, but even though that page is entitled "Who is using FB?" it appears to be a list of firebird enhancements and how-to blogs. I'd kinda like to see "company foo.com chooses firebird as its portal's RDBMS," or "company XYZ uses firebird as its embedded database engine," and I can't say that I've ever seen anything like that. Although, in all honesty, I've never tried very hard to find that information. :)
- greyman 19y agoMaybe they can improve marketing a bit. I read this "Get to know", but it didn't answered the basics questions like what exactly it is. ;-) ....ok, I deduced it is some kind of a database, but why does it exists?