http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6147298.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=newsOracle may have bought off MySQL's transactional database engines (both BDB and InnoDB!) but MySQL has created a new database engine called Falcon. Sounds terribly similar to Firebird huh?
Not surprisingly, the creator of the new db engine is Jim Starkey's Netfrastructure. You might recall that Jim Starkey is the original author of Borland's InterBase and was a key developer in the open source Firebird SQL database project.