Here is an interview with Jim Davis, SAS Institute SVP and Chief Marketing Officer.
He mentions SAS contributions to Firebird project
SAS (through our database access team) is one of the top corporate contributors to Firebird, an open source relational database.
I have been configuring a fair number of Linux database servers for a line-of-business application; it runs the Firebird SQL database in server mode only (no application code at all – just DB).
All of these are the wonderful Dell PowerEdge 2950 units with the PERC6i RAID controller, and my typical configuration is 6x 146G 15k SAS drives. These are the highest-performance, highest capacity solution in 3.5″ drives.
