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We had Interbase (which is Firedbirds predecessor) as our customer information and warehouse system. It's incredibly robust and (at least on Linux) quite fast. We chose it because it already supported triggers when Mysql did not, allowing us to put the complete business logic into the db rather than into desktop applications. Today I'd prefer Mysql (now that it also supports triggers) because it's faster, you get better support and it's default for most frameworks.

I've always been intrigued by Firebird, but I've always wondered... who uses it? Does anybody know any medium to enterprise sized users of Firebird? The feature list is pretty impressive, but I'm still not sure why you'd choose it over MySQL or PostgreSQL, even after reading this list.

I guess licensing and footprint aren't that big of a deal to me. Perhaps that's enough for some niche of users?

Maybe they can improve marketing a bit. I read this "Get to know", but it didn't answered the basics questions like what exactly it is. ;-) ....ok, I deduced it is some kind of a database, but why does it exists?

Who is using FB? http://www.firebirdnews.org/?cat=9

I appreciate the effort, honestly I do, but even though that page is entitled "Who is using FB?" it appears to be a list of firebird enhancements and how-to blogs. I'd kinda like to see "company foo.com chooses firebird as its portal's RDBMS," or "company XYZ uses firebird as its embedded database engine," and I can't say that I've ever seen anything like that. Although, in all honesty, I've never tried very hard to find that information. :)

Firebird: The Name Eternally Re-Used

What do you mean? There's the Pontiac car. And Mozilla temporarily used the name for the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox project but changed because the database was already using the name.

Just joking! :)

Guess I need to turn up the sarcasm sensors!

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