On 2 Dec 2002 at 11:10, Joe Martinez wrote:

> This is a question that I've always wondered about, but have never seen
> answered here. Anyone know?

Any G in tool names and in GDB means Groton (in case of GDB it stands for
Groton DataBase). It's the original company name before was changed to
Interbase. See Firebird History pages for more details.

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Pavel Cisar
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