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The author is probably referring to the earlier name Firebird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.html http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fir

• technomancy 16y ago
  See also: Phoenix.
• cubicle67 16y ago
  For those interested, Firebird is an opensource database based on Borlard's Interbase. Back in 2000, Borland (I think they may have been called Inprise at that stage) decided to opensource Interbase (version 6 I think) , which is where Firebird comes from. Shortly after, however, Borlard reversed their decision and took Interbase back in house again. Firebird remained active. In a previous life I was a Delphi developer, and used Firebird almost exclusively. It was an amazing database - client server, yet fast with very small resource requirements and as good as no admin requirements. Set and forget. I really don't know why it hasn't had more widespread adoption, but some of the problem seems to be due to lack of good drivers
• metageek 16y ago
  Oh, right. Forgot about that.