2008 Roadmap
The Firebird’s 2008 Roadmap is now public available.
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!
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.
FireBase site moved to a new server
O servidor onde o site da FireBase estava hospedado mudou, e com isso o IP também foi alterado. Quem estiver com dificuldades para acessar o site, favor atualizar o cache de DNS.
In English:
FireBase, major Firebird information portal in Brazil, has been moved to a new server. Please refresh all the DNS cache to be able to access the site.
Open-source security moves to next step
More about Coverity tests.
Survey about the 5th FDD
Only for Brazilians and portuguese speakers people:
Convidamos todos aqueles que tem interesse de participar da quinta edição do Firebird Developers Day a responder uma breve pesquisa on-line, para que possamos adequar cada vez mais o evento aos interesses dos participantes.
New Gold sponsor
UVdata A/S in Denmark has become a FF’s gold sponsor. Thanks, Jan Gaardboe Jensen and team.
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 the Delphi team in particular) will consider Firebird as a partner and not as a competitor of InterBase (the project Firebird was spinned off with Borland/Inprise original blessing). In my opinion, the key priority is to fully support Firebird in dbExpress with a specific driver, but official IBX support will also be nice to have.