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5th FDD interviews for TV
Hardsoft TV was covering the last Firebird Developers Day in Brazil, and now interviews started to be put online in their site. You can check the first one here (it is in portuguese, but you can check the images of the local, attendees, speakers, etc). BTW, the link only works with Internet Explorer.
Firebird x InterBase 2009
Paul Beach posted some comments about the SDTimes article “InterBase 2009 comes with multicore support” in his blog. Don’t forget to take a look at them.
OpenSQL Camp
Open-source databases have become quite prominent over the last decade, in large installations as well as small ones. MySQL and PostgreSQL are the best-known open-source databases, but SQLite, Firebird, and CouchDB are also popular in some corners, and offer compelling features of their own. In some cases, users aren’t even aware that they have installed [...]
Interviews in HardSoft TV
Two interviews made with Alexey Kovyazin (IBSurgeon) and Meiji Kimura, two years ago in the 3rd edition of Firebird Developers Day in Brazil was recently discovered and published in the HardSoft TV site.
HardSoft covered the conference one more time this year, and we expect to have the interviews published in the next 2 months.
PS: IE [...]
Open Source Awards Accepting Nominations - Firebird mention
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]
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SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards - remember vote for firebird
SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards: Hey! You! Are you sick of letting the big hardware companies, tech blogs, and mainstream media decide which open source projects deserve widespread attention? So are we. That’s why we created the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, and we need your nominations!
This link is for firebird nomination
Firebird in Database Journal
The site Database Journal talks about the new FB 2.1 release.
ARM Linux gains embeddable SQL database
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 [...]
Firebird on 2nd place in Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008
FWIW: Firebird won the 2nd place in the Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008.
http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,47,nodeid,17,p,0.html
What embedded database should I use with an old VB6 app?
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]
Sun, MySQL and the return of integrated solutions
Post in ZDNet mentions Firebird. Check the excerpt from the full article:
There are many open source projects that offer respectable database technology including Axion, Firebird, MaxDB, PostgreSQL, Ingres and quite a number of others including an old friend, MUMPS (I was a software engineer at a company that created MUMPS-based solutions in the late Jurassic [...]
Oops, Look At That Phoenix, Rising From The Ashes
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 [...]
Firebird is alive and secure
The following was sent to Charles Babcock at Information week in reply to an article entitled:
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes
As a developer and administrator of the Firebird Project I completely reject the statement you made in the above article.
“The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it [...]
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes - Firebird moribund ??
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
Marco Cantu blogs about CG and FB
Marco has expressed his opinion about the actual relationship between Borland/CodeGear and Firebird in his blog:
As Carlos Cantu noted, it is very relevant that one of the InterBase engineers (Sriram Balasubramanian) blogged his congratulations. This gives me a good chance to reiterate something I mentioned many times on my blog, my hope that CodeGear (and [...]
Sourceforget.net Marketplace
Article on ZDNet about Sourceforge Marketplace mention Firebird as a “major Open Source” project. Read more here.
Firebird is SF Project of the Month
December is Firebird’s turn to be Project of the Month at Sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/community/potm-200712/
And the Winner is —
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 [...]
Cross-Platform Development with Free Pascal 2.2.0
Article published in OsNews mentions Firebird:
“…As remarked earlier on, Free Pascal is shipped with the RTL and FCL code libraries. The FCL comes with components for accessing databases such as Oracle, Firebird, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL and any ODBC enabled database”.
Read more here.
Firebird - double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!
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.
Linux Gains Windows Muscle with LAMP/WAMP/FLAP/FWAP stack
One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free – alternatives to traditional [...]
Is time to vote firebird in SF Community Choice Awards 2007
Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/
News via phoronix.com
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Last year it was at Linux World Boston where the winners of the Source Forge Community Choice Awards were announced. Among the winners [...]
Open Source Conference 2007 .DB was held.
It was the event of the interesting form that the seminar which centers the up-to-date information of Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSQL which are called the Open Source Database big three, is done in the presentation of each user group member.
How much would be the cost to develop Firebird from scratch?
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.
LinuxInsider article mentions Firebird
“Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use” mentions Firebird, although has some interesting (to not say funny) mistakes, like:
the Firebird Project is based on the source code released by Borderland Software, formerly known as “Imprecise“, in July of 2000.
Should we mention this as “joke of the day”?
Firebird listed in Brazilian magazine
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 [...]
Info Exame reviews FB 2
Info Exame is a major computer magazine publication in Brazil. In the April edition, they published a 2 pages review of FB 2. Although it is not a deep review, it is a good propaganda for FB. The “cons” listed are mostly lack of default graphical interface (maybe its time to include FlameRobin in the [...]
Testing a Non-Rails Application Using Rails
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
firebirdsql.ru new firebird related website
spotted via opennet.ru’s firebird 2.0.1 release announcement (scroll down to the end)
Delphi for PHP supports Firebird
David I just posted in his blog that the new Delphi for PHP supports Firebird, along with many other databases.
Using firebird from command line
Article in Italian on database.html.it
Fyracle article in German
a German article about Fyracle has been published in the current edition
of the “Entwickler Magazin”. Selected articles are also available
online. The Fyracle article is one of them. You can read it here (in
German):
http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,8,online,1145,p,0.html
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The Ideal Database for Your Business?
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 [...]
Choosing the right database management system
Article published in ComputerWeekly mentions Firebird.
Firebird SQL, an alternative in the RDBMS panorama - article in database.html.it
Here is the main article and translation
The installation article of Firebird 1.5.x
There was an article of installation in item of the database of the page, free programming for windows.
Spotted via kimuradb.com blog
But as for the article the thing concerning 1.5.2, because not only 1.5.x system, also 2.0 is similar ones, Firebird as for the person who does not have the fact that you used please try [...]
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