> Of course I am highly biased, but I really think that the MySQL
> success story has peaked somewhere around 2004. The headline sales
> number for 2005 may be double the 2004 number (40 instead of 20
> million), but I doubt that the profit figure looks just as okay.
> Perhaps sales in 2006 will only be 30 mln:
> - SQLite has a better story on the low end
> - Firebird has a better story in the middle
> - Oracle/DB2 has a better story for corporate & enterprise
>
> In due modesty, those sales numbers are of course much more than the
> grand total of all Firebird plays. However, there may be more profit
> in Firebird plays (i.e. profit>0) than in MySQL right now (i.e.
> profit<0).

Hmmm, MySQL 5 is promising though. And quite the nice stab at
Firebird - with _still_ no released v2 ( I know why, but the outside
world doesn't) and is slowly creeping towards v3 with hardly any
new features? While MySQL 5 and 5.1 (which is underway) are
packed with new stuff.

How would that compare with Firebird?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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