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Is open source software a part of your daily computing life? Now is your chance to sound off about it. Sourceforge.net, an online community that hosts open source projects, is accepting nominations for its annual Community Choice awards. [ED:Read the rest of the article here At the end Firebird is mentioned for the last year awards] . It’s [...]

The site Database Journal talks about the new FB 2.1 release.

The Firebird Project has ported its lightweight, open-source database to the ARM architecture. The project is looking for help testing a new Firebird 2.1 RC2 release, which in addition to ARM support, adds database triggers, temporary and monitoring tables, common table expressions, and recursive queries http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7532715481.html [ED: ok the arm port is not merged in the cvs [...]

I have an older VB6 app that I want to extend the functionality, and the new features would require an embedded database. [Firebird embedded can be used for an old vb6 application, hack is used in many places with delphi]

In a story headlined, “Open Source Code Contains Security Holes,” I referred recently to the Firebird database project as “somewhat moribund.” So imagine my surprise when a reader pointed out it was named project of the month in December by SourceForge, the dominant host of open source projects. Geez. Then there was the [...]

From the FUD department Here is one sponsored article The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero

Article on ZDNet about Sourceforge Marketplace mention Firebird as a “major Open Source” project. Read more here.

For those who are curious to see the trophies we won in the recent Sourceforge.net Community Choice awards, there’s a photo to view. The gizmos make horrible noises. The engraved marble plinths weigh 2 Kgs each… The awards party was an blast  , And i liked This “screensaver” video that played on monitors during [...]

From InfoWorld: SourceForge unveils the winners of the ‘open-source Oscars’ “…The Firebird relational database was another double winner, being voted both best project for the enterprise and the project providing the best user support.” Congratulations for all who made this possible: The Firebird Project and all the people who voted! Read full article here.

Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/ News via phoronix.com [See remaining text…]  Last year it was at Linux World Boston where the winners of the Source Forge Community Choice Awards were announced. Among the winners [...]

Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.

The Brazilian magazine “Pequenas empresas & Grandes negócios” (something like Small enterprises & Big business) reviewed a few databases in its March/2007 edition. Firebird had an 8.0 but stayed behind PostgreSQL (8.7) and MySQL (8.5). It doesn’t say what was the criteria of analysis used in the ranking. One more time, the lack of default [...]

Rails developers working on enterprise software projects are suprised to discover the lack of automated tests in many mature web applications. As frustrating as this can be, A lack of automated tests is also a tremendous opportunity to

spotted via opennet.ru’s firebird 2.0.1 release announcement (scroll down to the end)

Article in Italian on database.html.it

This paper from CodeGear tries to convince users that InterBase 2007 is the best database for them. It even mentions “alternatives” like MySQL, PostgreSQL and …FIREBIRD 1.5! Of course, like any marketing paper, it tries to show that IB is the best option But it is curious that they decided to compare IB 2007 with [...]

Here is the main article and translation

On blog.kimuradb.com there is an addendum to the main MinGW+Firebird article (from Free programming for Windows site)