> Firebird: The legend continues.
> Firebird: Meet the Legend.

I like these, especially when compared with Oracle
who think about itself as legend. Looking at timeline here
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/03-may/o33drdba.html
it seems that Firebird (under different names then :-) implemented
many features before or at the same time as Oracle. E.g.

"Oracle version 6, released in July 1988,...One of the most important of its new features
was row-level locking-a transaction performing writes locks only the affected rows (not an entire table) ..."

FB never needed locking whole tables.

"Oracle version 6 also introduced hot backups, allowing a database to be backed up while in use."

FB had hot backups from the beginning.

etc.

Ivan