Increase the popularity and visibility of FB.

OpenOffice.org Base is looking for a good fit for a DB that can be
integrated as a sort of MS Access alternative. Efforts are currently
underway to work with SQLite and HSQLDB.

Looking over their requirements, I think Firebird would be a nice fit.
Even if FB arrives a little late to the party, it can be deployed
after OOo 2.0:

"You even could do this after OpenOffice.org 2.0 is out. We will
provide a infrastructure for embedding data into our database
documents, which can be used by arbitrary drivers. So if you write an
"Embed SQLite"-driver for OpenOffice.org, you could deploy it in an
existing OpenOffice.org 2.0 installation, and it will automatically be
recognized. Upon creating a new database document, the user then would
have the choice between all database types for which an "embedding"
driver is available."

I think the "winning" database will benefit by a greatly expanded user
base and developer base.

More info here:

http://dba.openoffice.org/miscellaneous/dba20.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7800

Regards,

Wayne Sherman
Las Vegas