Databases

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On March 15, 2005 09:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:47:21PM -0500, Gary Layng wrote:
> > A somewhat esoteric seeming question about PostgreSQL  and Firebird
> > database programs, but: is one preferable over the other?  The only thing
> > I know about them is that they're both open source database programs.
> >
> > I'm giving Quasar a try. ?It's a newly open-sourced accounting program
> > created by this Calgary company. ?The earlier, "OK to use on a single
> > computer" non-open-source licence version was no biggie for setup and
> > etc., but the new version is demanding either one of these database
> > programs (or Sybase, which is proprietary, and therefore if possible to
> > be avoided...), and the only database program I have is mySQL.
>
> Well at least postgresql is in use by many people.  Never heard of
> firebird.  I wonder if it is something at the level of MS Access.

Not even close. Firebird was known as Borland Interbase before it was released 
under some Open Source license. After the source was released, someone 
noticed that a back door password had been hard coded in the server for the 
convenience of Borland support.
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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
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Toronto, ON
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