Hello!

I'm very new with databases and I need to make a major decision -
Firebird of MySQL? What are the advantages of FireBird over MySQL?
What are the free database components that I can use with FireBird?
What can you say about this article
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index
.html ?

Your help will be very much appreciated. Thank you very much.

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