At 10:13 AM 4/17/2003 +1200, C Fraser wrote:

>You have MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc...

Ingres, Informix, Sybase to mention some others in our
space. Lotus 123 is probably the best example, though
Delphi is near to many hearts. Postgres was the original
name for Stonebreaker's next effort - it became PostgreSQL
when they decided to get religion SQL style. Even SQL
was a joke, having nothing to do with Structured Query
Language (structured? Give me a break...) It was the
sequel to Alpha - Codd's first relational language - and
an alternative to Quel which had to be based - in part -
on Qwell (google it).

As a name, Firebird has a long history to ... well, I
wouldn't lean on it, but I might depart from it.


cheers,

Ann