July 31, 2007
Firebird is a DBMS based on open source codes Borland InterBase 6.0. In 2000, when the InterBase future was yet vague and uncertain, Borland corporation decided to open DBMS source codes and publish them with free distribution licenses. The Firebird project was started on June 31, 2000 with the aim of code development, free distribution and usage. Since then the Project has dynamically developed. Firebird developers fixed a significant amount of old InterBase errors and added new functionality.
Today, Firebird DBMS is one of the most popular open source DBMS. Different estimates show 3 to 10 million Firebird users.
