MySQL has hired Jim Starkey, creator of the InterBase database—which later became the popular open-source Firebird database—in addition to scooping up Starkeys one-man Firebird-based company, ...
FireBird is an open-source RDBMS (such as MySQL), which runs on Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. FireBird scores better than MySQL since it supports triggers, procedures, UDFs (User Defined ...