SAPDB/MaxDB and Firebird [Was: [PLUG] MySQL v. PostgreSQL -- perhaps an easy answer]

[Robby Russell]

Kyle Hayes wrote:

> 
> 2) the community.  They are doing solid work on it, but I fear that there 
> isn't enough difference between it and MaxSQL/Postgres to keep people 
> involved.  Postgres has a large, healthy community and MaxSQL has MySQL AB 
> behind it, so it has co-opted the large MySQL community to an extent.
> 
> It is communities that keep open source projects alive and healthy.

It is also competition that helps drive open source projects to be 
bigger, better and ....