[fpc-other] Firebird vs PostgreSQL

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Santiago A. said:
> That's my point. Why Firebird is not more popular?
> 
> Once I read two point about Firebird lack of popularity:
> * In early days, firebird documentation was almost inexistent, there
> were a few .txt with new features but you had to rely on Interbase 6.0
> docs, that weren't very good either. So it looked like an almost
> abandoned software maintained by a few fans.
> * It had no administration tool, you had (and you still have) to rely on
> third part tools. I think flamerobin is the administration tool "de facto"

* it was x86 only for a long time.

Which is why I ended up with postgresql, having powerpc and later arm
servers.