Rebuilt Firebird 2.0.3 MacOSX Superserver Kits
New kits for the Superserver installations on both i386 and PPC can be downloaded now. No changes to the engine but an installer problem has been fixed.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
Newsgroup using FB
It seems that Marco Cantu has coded his own newsgroup application (Delphi/Kylix app) using Firebird for storage. You can get more details here.
Delphi 2008 survey
CodeGear is running an on-line survey about what customers would like to see in Delphi 2008. One of the questions: “Which databases do you require Delphi connectivity with?”
Firebird is among the choices so, it’s time to show to CodeGear the real need for official drivers supporting Firebird in Delphi. Vote now!
ODBC or OLEDB?
If you wanna know what is the best option to be used with Firebird, check this article from IBProvider.
Firebird 2.1RC1 is out
The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the first V.2.1 release candidate are now available – Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms now, MacOSX soon. You are invited to test it furiously and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel list.
As always, please be patient if the files you want haven’t made it out to the mirrors at your first attempt.
2008 Roadmap
The Firebird’s 2008 Roadmap is now public available.
Sun buys MySQL = opportunity to Firebird
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. Among his considerations, Marco see this as a good opportunity to Firebird, a trully OpenSource project (and product):
I think this is another great opportunity for a truly open source and fully independent database like FireBird (and to a much lesser extend for InterBase)
What do you think about FirebirdSQL.org?
Do you think that Firebird official site needs a facelift and be replaced with a new one, with a clear, professional attractive design? Please vote in our poll (look at the sidebar in the main page) and let us know.
A detailed explanation of the answers is:
- No, it’s fine as is. – meaning that you are satisfied with the currently design and sections of the site.
- Yes – meaning that a change would be welcome
- Yes, for sure! – meaning that site *really needs* to be improved
- Yes, and FB logo too – meaning that site needs to be improved, as well the Firebird official logo.
Note: Depending on the results (yes x no), a complete survey with detailed “requirements” for the changes will be built and put online.
PS: This poll is being promoted by FirebirdNews site. There are no guarantees that the people responsible for the currently firebirdsql site will do anything based on the poll results.
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 period)! If Sun tries to “squeeze” the users of MySQL, it is likely that these organizations will simply move to another platform and say goodbye to MySQL and Sun. Do you agree with my line of reasoning?
Sun buys MySQL
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL. More information here.