Evaluating open-source DBs -Firebird Enterprise ready ?

The thread is on joelonsoftware.com and the question is about open source databases  :

Quick issue, everyone.  My company currently uses SQL Server, but we’re going to look at open-source databases because of MS’s crooked licensing rules (to be honest, they only have one SQL license, and are running it on a two-processor machine).  They don’t want to shell out the extra $6,000 for another one, and I don’t blame them. Read more

Origin of the firebird/interbase port 3050

Here is the question on Firebird-Support group

> How did port 3050 get selected as the “gds_db” service port. Was it
> chosen arbitrarily or is there some interesting story behind it? Maybe
> Jim Starkey’s phone number in Groton? 🙂

No story there at all. It was just a number that nobody else seemed
to be using at the time.
And don’t ask me to remember a 25 year old
phone number … I barely remember my current number!

Cheers,

Ann

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