Marco Cantu published in his blog that Borland (the previous owner of InterBase) was acquired by Microfocus. Read more here.
Note that InterBase, Delphi and all the other development tools owned previously by Borland was aquired by Embarcadero sometime ago (when they bought CodeGear).
I just evaluated a switch of a Firebird server from a virtual VMware server to a physical server, and the results were stunning. I measured simple select SQL statements to a very small table, and on the virtual server, more than 90% of the queries finished in more than 20ms, and the median was between 20-30ms normally, and sometimes up to 80%. The 99% percentile was out of scale.
Continue reading in Compas Pascal blog.
Ido Kanenr has released a Firebird Start Guide in Hebrew language. More information here.
In the 6th edition of the FDD conference, we will have the presence of Vlad Horsun (thanks IBSurgeon) and Dmitry Kuzmenko, as international speakers, together with a great set of speakers from the Brazilian community. Attendees can register online now.
FDD is an annual conference that takes place in Brazil, organized by FireBase, and has an average of 500-600 attendees each edition.
The other options is that open source developers will put their eyes into other open source databases, maybe those with less restrictive licences (Firebird come to mind, but I’m biased here).
Read the full post.
The aquisition was funded by Firebird Foundation. Firebird 2.1.3 will include cloud database features merged from NimbusDB, that was being developed by Jim Starkey.
In the other side, Jim will not join the project, and plans to spend the money buying a bigger boat and sail around the world for the next 5 years.
Signals shows that Firebird will be officially supported in the next version of Delphi. That’s what Anders Ohlsson says, as published in Marco Cantu blog:
He said that in the next version of Delphi they are looking forward to supporting (among other features) Firebird, touch-based UI (multi-platform touch engine), 64bit, and cloud computing.
From Firebirdsql.org:
Firebird 2.1.2 is Released
The Firebird team is pleased to announce the sub-release Firebird 2.1.2 for production. Kits for Linux, Windows and MacOSX Intel and PowerPC are making their way to the mirror sites today. Enjoy!
N.B. The Classic package for MacOSX PPC will be delayed slightly.
Bernardo Giovani just released a simple article (in Italian) about using Firebird with VB.Net.
Thomas Steinmaurer’s article (in english) about using aggregate tables with Firebird is now available for download.
