MySQL Takes Another Step (Away from Open Source)
In the ongoing effort to convert more users into paying customers, MySQL announced today that they are no longer making the source code tarball for their Enterprise server publicly available. You could see this coming from a million miles away.
http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2007/08/mysql-takes-another-step-away-from-open-source.html [ED: so this could be more space for firebird in open source enterprise area]
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here is another blog post with some info
http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2007/08/09/mysql-community-split-officially-a-failure/