I have been evaluating Firebird for a couple of days now, and I still
have some open questions:

- What exactly is the current relationship between InterBase and
Firebird? As far as I have read it is the ongoing development of
an open source release of a previous version of InterBase.
Are they drifting apart? Are they being developed by the same people?
If development is independent, how come that many tool can work
with both the Firebird and the InterBase client shared library?

- Are the 'IBPhoenix Documentation' page and the archives of this group
all the available documentation for Firebird?
I find frequent references to InterBase in the available Firebird
documentation. Does that mean that it is outdated?

I don't want to draw flames or initiate a heated discussion, but
I don't know where else to look for answers.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe