“Inprise Corp. has made official the spin-off of its InterBase
database division into a separate company, which will open the
database’s source code in an upgrade planned for mid-year.”
“The new company, InterBase Corp., is headed by InterBase
veterans Ann Harrison as president, Paul Beach as vice president of
sales and marketing, and Jim Starkey, architectural advisor. It has
27 employees….”
“InterBase 6.0 will support Windows platforms, as well as
Solaris and HP-UX. However, Fuller expects a growing share of
the business to derive from InterBase’s support for Linux, the
open-source operating system.“