Artur Anjos wrote:

> I receive today the news, from a fellow in CFLP that works at Bank of
> Brazil, that BB is moving internal systems to Firebird.
>
> This webpage (portuguese only) as a link to Firebird as well:
> http://office.bb.com.br/office/plugins/index.html
>
> that links to this one:
> http://office.bb.com.br/office/plugins/index.html
>
> A translation to english could be something like:
>
> "The enterprise applications from BBstore the data generated on is use,
> in order that you can consult them in case of necessity. This storage is
> done by Firebird Database Manager System".
>
> Maybe someone from Brazil will help me here, but I think BB it's the
> biggest bank of South America.
>
> Artur
>

Artur,

BB is a estatal bank (don't know if it's the correct term but it's not a
private banking).

Here is a link for the site in English
http://www.bb.com.br/appbb/portal/ri/eng/index.jsp

A little history about BB from the times we were a Portuguese Colony
until 2004
http://www.bb.com.br/appbb/portal/ri/eng/HistoryBB.jsp

here is a link showing the raniking of the biggest banks (in portuguese)
http://www.valoronline.com.br/especiais/valor1000/RankingBancos.aspx

The Assets Total of BB is 264.634,93 millions of reais (divide by 2.13
to get a aproximate ammount in dollars)

see you !

--
Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br