Jim Starkey leave MySQL

Today I look a news from firebirdnews and know that Jim (father of Interbase) leave MySQL, many people think what the next things (new technology) that may Jim develop? You can read the news in here

Zeos movement supporting FB 2.1

There is an active discussion about development of ZeosLib to support FB 2.1 , for the moment FB 2.1 is not supported yet. The discussion is in this link. Want some challange to support this development? The development team always welcome.