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diff --git a/databases/firebird2-server/pkg-descr b/databases/firebird2-server/pkg-descr index dbeba43f543f..ba570031da86 100644 --- a/databases/firebird2-server/pkg-descr +++ b/databases/firebird2-server/pkg-descr @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@ -The open-source InterBase(tm) 6.0 spin-off (Classic server version) - -InterBase is a world-class DBMS with a history too rich to detail -here. Once selling for several thousands of dollars per license, -some very big players use it worldwide. Inprise has open-sourced -InterBase 6.0, and a lively bunch of folks has charged themselves -with seeing that it lives on through the Firebird project. +Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features +that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird +offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language +support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in +production systems, under a variety of names since 1981. For more information on Firebird and InterBase, see: |