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# This file is part of GNU Enterprise.
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# GNU Enterprise is free software; you can redistribute it
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# and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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# version 2, or(at your option) any later version.
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# GNU Enterprise is distributed in the hope that it will be
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# useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
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# warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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# PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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# License along with program; see the file COPYING. If not,
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# write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place
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# - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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# Copyright 2000-2005 Free Software Foundation
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Info for this database.
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name = "Firebird/Interbase"
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url = "http://www.firebirdsql.org/"
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Firebird is a free relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that
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runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers
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excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for
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stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems,
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under a variety of names since 1981.
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Interbase is a proprietary database available from Borland.
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Firebird and Interbase share a common API, which allows GNUe to use the same
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Firebird is a popular choice of GNUe's Windows-based developers.
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isfree = False # Should be false for non-free DBMSs... we don't want to
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# show URLs for non-free on our website