> Awesome, Marathon is open again! Why I remember using that way back in
> '99. It was my first tool for using the beloved jrd? That was back
> when Interbase was fixing to go open source, and all we had was a fine
> 6.0.0 beta for what seemed like an eternity. We also had to walk
> uphill, in the snow, in our barefeet to get everywhere.
>
> Well, anyways joking aside I'm glad you've said that Marathon is open
> again. I was really sad to hear when it went commercial. But now this
> is just one of many great open-source IB/FB administration products.

"Marathon went commercial"? It went from commercial to open source
due to lack of time by the guy who made it.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com