e_heyns wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Where does Firebird position itself in the database world? I'm looking
> at Ingres and Firebird, where Ingres claims to be a contender for the
> Oracle realm of applications. I don't necesarily need Oracle, but how
> do Ingres and Firebird stack up to each other?
>

don't have time to make a Firebird to Ingres check list but you are
invited to do one :)

I think firebird is going after oracle "food" too

We started porting from oracle to firebird and here is my intro (porting
is done only with linux tools)

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2004/09/porting-from-oracle-to-firebird-howto.html

also there is fyracle - oracle mode firebird

http://www.janus-software.com/fb_fyracle.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/26/1845230&tid=221&tid=198&tid=8