The Team is pleased to announce that the second (hopefully final) release candidate builds are ready to field-test. Builds for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel are available. Download HERE and enjoy. As always, your feedback to the firebird-devel list would be welcome.
dbExpress Driver for Firebird is a high quality driver providing optimum performance for Firebird service data accessing operation.
Read more and download it here.
Marco Cantu talks about Firebird SFCCA award, and says:
The Firebird open source database server wins a SourceForge Community Choice Award (in the “Best Project for Enterprise” category). This is certainly a very good sign of its popularity. At the time MySQL future is far from clear, due to multiple project spin-off following Oracle acquisition of Sun (and MySQL), Firebird has a chance to stand out. Maybe its last big chance, I’m not sure.
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The open source, SourceForge community, has voted for the 4th annual community choice awards. The best open source project for enterprise was Firebird SQL. Some application developers and database professionals know that the genesis of Firebird is Embarcadero InterBase. In fact, if you look at the source code, you’ll see copyright notices that are also in Embarcadero Technologies‘ InterBase SMP SQL database. 185,000 votes were cast by community members.
Stay tuned to the Embarcadero Developer Network for news about our support for Firebird in future versions of all of our products. We look forward to a great future working closely with the Firebird community.
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SQLLY has a page with a free on-line PSQL source code formatter. Give it a try!
When Dmitry Kuzmenko (IBSurgeon) spoke at FDD a few weeks ago, he shown the results of his recent tests creating a 1 TB (yes, ONE TERABYTE) database with Firebird!
It was really cool to know that FB can handle such beast! A more detailed report about this will be public available in August. Keep checking FirebirdNews!
Hi,
I’ve been working on an improved plug-in for wireshark (previously known as ethereal) and have produced a “Wire Protocol Specification” as a byproduct.
From my preliminary reading of news groups, etc., several people have asked for this kind of information. It’s not complete, it’s not correct but it’s better than anything else I have been able to find.
It should go in your Documentation and Papers section.
Regards,
Mark Chambers
Adriano has done some tests with the Firebird Protocol behavior in high latency (aka. Internet), and posted the results in his new blog. Worth reading!
Note: If you check the Firebird tracker, you will notice that the most voted feature right now is “improvent of the network protocol”. You can vote there too, to raise the priority even more.
During the Brazilian 6th Firebird Developers Day on-line subscription process, attendees had the chance to donate money to the Firebird Foundation. Also, in the conference day, people was able to donate any amount of money.
Today, the collected money (USD 1.250) was sent to the Foundation, as can be seen here.
Thanks for all the donors!
Nor the global crisis nor the pig influenza was enough to affect the success of the 6th edition of the Firebird Developers Day Conference in Brazil! About 480 people where there, and you can check report (in English) and pictures here.
