firebird/doc/README.user

FirebirdSQL

Welcome to FirebirdSQL.

FirebirdSQL 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 opensource project developing and enhancing a multi-platform 
relational database management system based on the source code released by 
Inprise Corp (now known again as Borland Software Corp).

More information can be found about Firebird can be found in the 'doc' 
subdirectory or at:

http://www.firebirdsql.org