Time for the FirebirdSQL Open Source database...

SourceForge.net: firebird-devel: "My name is David Shamlin; I am with SAS Institute, Inc (http://www.sas.com/). SAS is the company that comissioned the Vulcan port of Firebird. We are a business and analytic intelligence software vendor."
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"Currently, SAS has three developers and a DBMS product specialist working full time with the Vulcan source. A couple of additional individuals are contributing on a part time basis to additional porting and testing efforts."
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"David Shamlin is a R&D Director for the SAS Institute, Inc."

SAS is the world's leader in business analytics software, delivering the breakthrough technology you need to transform the way you do business. Our software provides one integrated process for analyzing data from every source and gaining the predictive power to drive change at every level.

I am very glad about this. To me, this is the most promising Open Source database. It is a pitty that their marketing skills are not up to the technical quality of their product... but maybe this helps.

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