Great news!
Thanks for sharing the info because I really lost everthing about
Open/Libre Office a bit out of sight

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



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