> > - Fine-granular multi-threading and SMP support

In Vulcan

> > - Support for different authentication protocols like Kerberos, ...

Part of the security Plugin Architecture started in 2.0, and also looked
at under Vulcan

> > - Full-Text search capabilities (I know, there are third-party
> > solutions available, but usually people I know are asking for
> > a built-in solution)

Anybody want to Sponsor this?

> > - Clustering (Load Balancing, Hot-Standby)

All could be potentially looked at in more detail with Vulcan..

> > - Incremental Backup, Point-In-Time Recovery

Firebird 2 - see NBackup

> > - Cross-Database-Queries

Extend current SQL implementation to support database.tablename
notation as was used in QLI. Firebird can do it, its just not surfaced
in SQL. Sponsor?

> > - Gateways to other data sources (e.g. connecting to another
> > DBMS within a stored procedure)

See Vulcan Provider Architecture, it should support this possibility.
Although the providers would have to be written.

> > - NUMERICs/DECIMALs with a precision up to 38
> > - Monitoring and Profiling capabilities (to see what's going
> > on in the database; running statements, transactions, ...)

Nickolay's Trace API

> > - and some more ...
>
> Ah, yes, and: ;-)
>
> - Increased max. index length (done in Firebird v2)
> - Case-insensitive indexed search (case-insensitive indexes?)

Suspect this is handled by the new INTL architecture, but I could be wrong.

Not too bad considering we do not have CA's money in the bank....

Paul