Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Re: Name for the Phoenix PHPServer Stack
Author Martijn Tonies
Hello Paul,

> > > I thought it already had a name: "Phoenix PHPServer"
> > Does it serve PHP then? ;)
>
> No, it does not serve chickens or chickenwings either :^)

Oh, pitty.

> > Remember why "Mozilla Phoenix" had to change its name?
>
> No, but Helen pointed out that Phoenix Technologies (PT) might have had
> something to do with it -- and I appreciate that she did point that out.

Yep. "Phoenix" was the original name of "Firefox", but PT already
had a browser thingy (bios browser, I believe) named "Phoenix" or
had a browser and was named Phoenix itself -- either way, they made
Mozilla change "Phoenix" to "Firebird". You know what happened
after that.

> PHPServer was created to scratch a particular itch and to some extent
> is a sister product to Phoenix Object Basic, which I have made
> available ever since 2000. As far as I know, PT does not object.
>
> I can understand that the Firebird project is more concerned, having
> been somewhat bruised in the phoenix-to-firefox brouhaha.
>
> As said, I built PHPServer for a personal itch and it did not occur to
> me until today, that PHPServer was something that the Firebird project
> might take on board. I don't mind if a different, totally risk-free
> name is chosen for that context.
>
> I look forward to following this thread.

What - exactly - does it do?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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