Its expected that in GoldMine 7.0, FrontRange Solutions
will be using Firebird as the backend database and
will be discontinuing the borland dBase engine.
About Firebird®
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI
SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a
variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent
concurrency, high performance, and powerful language
support for stored procedures and triggers. It has
been used in production systems, under a variety of
names since 1981. Firebird is a commercially independent
project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors
and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform
relational database management system based on the
source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as
Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000 under the
InterBase Public License v.1.0.
For more information about Firebird please visit:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ibphoenix.com/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7010
