--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers@...> wrote:

>
> Noticed this LibreOffice issue tracker item
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51780
>
> ... where people want to replace the existing embedded Base database
> with Firebird embedded.
>
> Hope it gets done - would probably be a nice boost to the Firebird name
> from a PR perspective as well as make it easier to work with
> Base+Firebird...

Sorry to dig this old thread but is done :) and we can test it from LibreOffice 4.2

Firebird has now been integrated into LibreOffice
http://www.ahunt.org/2013/07/firebird-now-in-master/

This will give an estimate of > 25 Mil potential users if we consider 2011 numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Users_and_deployments
And for the easy of use part:
Firebird will be the Base default database engine