>> It's funny when some so-called open source enthusiast says things

like "finally MySQL will have this and that thing", I know a number of
them. When I say them "but Firebird had it a lot of time ago". But
when they

> Totally agree with you! All "We" must do a much greater work to make
> Firebird more popular and to give it well-deserved place in RDBMS

world. Any ideas? Probably more e-publications with good, easy to
understand examples about excellent Firebird functionality.

I wait for Firebird2 and see whether it fixes UTF-8/Unicode problems.
We went back to MySql_4.1.7 for Linux release because of the
internationalization problems. It has a stable innodb table format and
good jdbc driver.

I still keep FB running as a hobby installation but its not in the
production use atm. But will try it again when FB2 binary test version
is released. It quite easy us to move to a new db because we dont put
any business logic to the db layer (views or procedures).