Additional commentary on the open source database market
Read more in Alex Fletcher blog. The post is a special comment for his previous article “Thoughts on the open source database market“.
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Forrester: Open source databases should be part of every database management system strategy
Open source technologies continue to make headway in the enterprise, and none more so, perhaps, than open source database management systems (DBMS).
Read full story here.
DROL Winner
The winner of the “Darwin Race of Languages” competition is Werewolf, who submited a nive GUI frontend for gbak (Windows and Linux), made in Delphi/Kylix. You can check more information and download it here.
Firebird Intl Conference (Italy) – Timetable is online
The timetable for the International Firebird Conference is now available in the official site. Register this week and get earlybird discount!
Servoy supports Firebird
For those tired of maintaining separate code bases for Web and desktop applications, Servoy offers a way to consolidate those code bases and cut development time in half.
Servoy apps can access many different databases, including Firebird.
More information here.
FirebirdConfig
A very nice GUI frontend to configure Firebird.conf file can be found here. It runs on Windows, and the author is waiting for your comments.
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 is need to watch the videos.
Darwin Race of Languages
Two GUI applications for using gBak was already submited to the DROL competition! Check them out here.
Report of the 5th FDD
The official report of the 5th edition of Firebird Developers Day is now on-line (in English and Portuguese).
5th Firebird Developers Day – total success
We just had the 5th edition of Firebird Developers Day, in Piracicaba – SP, Brazil. This time there was 580 subscribed people, and it was an amazing day. There was two TV stations covering the conference, and comments from the attendees could not be better 😉
You can check some pictures here. Thanks for all who attended the conference. I hope to see you again in the next year!