“Interbase’s decision last month to release its upcoming
InterBase 6.0 database under the open-source Mozilla Public License
1.1 will give this wallflower a chance to bloom.”
“PC Week Labs’ programming and benchmark tests of
InterBase–the first time comparative test results of the
package have been published–show the upgrade can stand up
under the public scrutiny it’s going to get when it’s released
around midyear. The source code will be released initially in
Linux, Solaris and Windows versions.
Truly, all that glitters is not gold–sometimes, it’s a database
that comes out shining. In InterBase, we found a fast,
full-featured, mature relational database, although its lack of a
shared cache on Linux really slows it down under heavier
workloads.”