>>>the "Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing" (http://www.faw.at)
>>>in cooperation with "Fabalabs Software GmbH"
>>>(http://www.fabalabs.org) have made a new Open Source DBMS evaluation
>>>document available, comparing Firebird 1.5.2, Ingres r3 3.0.1, MaxDB
>>>7.5.0.23, MySQL 4.1.10 and PostgreSQL 8.0.1 in different areas.
>>>
>>>The document can be downloaded here:
>>>http://www.fabalabs.org/research/papers/FabalabsResearchPaper-OSDB
>>>MS-Eval.pdf
>
>
>>Wow, it's thorough document.
>>People, have a look.
>>I just read some lines here and there for now.
>
>
> I did read it when Thomas posted it, and found it very interesting.
> And, I just re-read it again just to see if I missed something the
> first time I read it. And, I did miss something, Thomas's name is on
> this document.
>
> The Firebird team seems to be on the right track with FB 2.0 and
> the future FB 3.0.

Yes they are!

Especially scalability (fine-grained multi-threading) and cluster
support (load-balancing and fail-over) is on top of the wish list of
mid-size companies.

> And, I have to say, hats off to Thomas and his colleagues for this
> document.
>

Thanks. I let the others know. ;-)


Cheers,
Thomas