pkgsrc-wip/firebird/DESCR

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Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 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.
Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers,
technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform
relational database management system based on the source code released by
Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase Public
License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000.