Hi,
I have just learnt about the firebird project and was wondering how
alive it is. I know this is hard to quantify, but is development going
better/worse than postgres? In terms of features it looks quite
exciting... It seems to be more mature than postgres, but that could
be my ignorance speaking... They only have 50-odd people active on the
project (and that is including programmers, documenters, testers,
etc), and I imagine that is heaps fewer than postgres. That have a
good start, but what are things going to look like in 5 years? I quite
frankly don't like mysql that much
and defintely want something like one of these two, but the simple
fact of the matter is that I heard of postgres a long time ago, and
firebird only today. Does that mean I have my head in a dark, smelly
place, or that firebird is not as active? Will there still be people
developing firebird in 10yrs? At a quick glance php support looks to
be at least as strong for firebird, but a lot of things seem to be for
interbase - are they always going to be compatible? I see pear db has
support for interbase, does that mean firebird too, or just the latest
interbase?
Cheers
Antoine
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
I have just learnt about the firebird project and was wondering how
alive it is. I know this is hard to quantify, but is development going
better/worse than postgres? In terms of features it looks quite
exciting... It seems to be more mature than postgres, but that could
be my ignorance speaking... They only have 50-odd people active on the
project (and that is including programmers, documenters, testers,
etc), and I imagine that is heaps fewer than postgres. That have a
good start, but what are things going to look like in 5 years? I quite
frankly don't like mysql that much
and defintely want something like one of these two, but the simple
fact of the matter is that I heard of postgres a long time ago, and
firebird only today. Does that mean I have my head in a dark, smelly
place, or that firebird is not as active? Will there still be people
developing firebird in 10yrs? At a quick glance php support looks to
be at least as strong for firebird, but a lot of things seem to be for
interbase - are they always going to be compatible? I see pear db has
support for interbase, does that mean firebird too, or just the latest
interbase?
Cheers
Antoine
--
G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at
--
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