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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:49:38 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interbase source available
Message-ID:  <20000726104938.J57100@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <20000726012622.BA7E737BC03@hub.freebsd.org>; from hsu@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:26:22PM -0700
References:  <20000726012622.BA7E737BC03@hub.freebsd.org>

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Jeffrey Hsu on 2000-07-25 (Tue) at 18:26:22 -0700:
> 
> In case anyone wants to make a port out of it, Borland has just
> released the source to their SQL database at
>   http://www.borland.com/interbase

Yes, this is an important one.  I have developed on Interbase 5.1 before, and
it is a solid commercial database which provides many of the integrity etc.
features still lacking form the current crop of open source databases.
(Though Postgres will get there in the end, I believe.)

Though they canvassed the opinion of FreeBSD users during the run-up to this
open source release, the eventual release provides binaries only for Linux,
Solaris and Windows.  And the source, of course, under a variant of MPL 1.1.

I currently lack the time and probably the knowledge to port something this
big, but it should be done.  And I'm willing ot help if need be.

Also see:  http://www.interbase.com/

-- V


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