Hi,
I'm still looking for a good Firebird slogan, a short sentence which
characterizes the product.

So far you've seen I used "Firebird, the open source InterBase(r)
descendant". The idea was to have something that describes its
relationship with InterBase.

However, I received some comments about this and am not really happy
with it myself. The problem is, that "descendant" somehow gives the
image of the big mother InterBase and its little child Firebird. That
would of course be wrong. Since the two products have a common point
of depart (the source code released in 2000), their relationship is
somehow more that of brothers or sisters, rather than mother-child.

Also, I have the impression development is more active at Firebird
than at Borland, and that Borland copies Firebird improvements
whereas Firebird doesn't copy Borland improvements. So, for the
improvement part, it looks more like Firebird is the mother and
InterBase the child ;)

Anyway, so, how would this sound:

Firebird, the open source twin of InterBase(r) ?

Cheers
Markus