What is Firebird?

Dmitry Kuzmenko has an interesting post in his blog that tries to describe what is the “Firebird Project” and “Firebird Foundation” (as well its papers in the whole thing). Also, it has some interesting statistics about downloads and installations, ie:

…But it stands more than 5000 visits every day and log more than 1000 installations at Windows platform per day (!), according to the statistics of the installer’s ‘landing page’. Also there are more than 1 mln downloads of all Firebird installers and other files per year from the sourceforge.

Read the full post.