On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:55, Bernhard Döbler wrote: > 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
I went to dinner with two key Firebird people just a few weeks ago after FOSDEM in Brussles. So we are pretty friendly with the firebird people and we will try to move some of the features they have to 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? We will add all the stuff but it will take time since it takes time to do it RIGHT! /David > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
