Can someone with better understanding of Embedded Firebird confirm or
shoot down the notion that only one connection can ever be established
to the Embedded Firebird database at any give time? I haven't been
able to get multiple connections to the database and I not quite sure
if I'm doing something wrong. I think I'm doing everything right
and
the readme file says:

"You may run any number of applications with the embedded
server without any conflicts. Having IB/FB server running
is not a problem either.

But you should be aware that you cannot access single
database from a number of the embedded servers
simultaneously, because they have SuperServer architecture
and hence exclusively lock attached databases."

Can someone clarify this?

We really want to use Firebird instead of Oracle Lite.