Curiosity of the day
Looking Google Analytics statistics for FirebirdNews site, it is clear that most of Firebird users prefers Firefox over IE. Check the stats below:
In its 4th edition, the Brazilian conference will be held one more time in Piracicaba-SP, at 14/July. The conference site is already accepting online subscriptions. You can see reports of the past editions (in portuguese and english) here.
Datanamic is pleased to announce DB Data Generator V1.0, a tool to generate large amounts of test data for database testing purposes.
DB Data Generator V1 is available in 7 Editions: A MultiDB edition which supports Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access, InterBase/Firebird, MySQL and a single DBMS edition for each supported database.
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coupon code DDGMAYDC on the order page.
Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.
“Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use” mentions Firebird, although has some interesting (to not say funny) mistakes, like:
the Firebird Project is based on the source code released by Borderland Software, formerly known as “Imprecise“, in July of 2000.
Should we mention this as “joke of the day”? 🙂
Are you curious to see all the new internal functions that will be available in the shortcoming FB 2.1? If so, take a look here. Most of the functions were ported from Yaffil to FB 2.1. It seems that the porting job was finished by Adriano a few days ago. That’s really good news 🙂
Core Lab Software Development has released new versions of the Data Access Components product line with support for Firebird 2. Read more here.
Tableau Software, the global leader in visual analysis software, today launched Tableau v3.0, the most powerful and easy to use data analysis software available. It is designed for information workers in all job functions and industries. Tableau v3.0 enables people to summarize and explore their everyday data with an intuitive interface that generates crisp visual displays.
Read more here.
The Brazilian magazine “Pequenas empresas & Grandes negócios” (something like Small enterprises & Big business) reviewed a few databases in its March/2007 edition. Firebird had an 8.0 but stayed behind PostgreSQL (8.7) and MySQL (8.5). It doesn’t say what was the criteria of analysis used in the ranking. One more time, the lack of default graphical administration utility was listed as a bad thing.
Info Exame is a major computer magazine publication in Brazil. In the April edition, they published a 2 pages review of FB 2. Although it is not a deep review, it is a good propaganda for FB. The “cons” listed are mostly lack of default graphical interface (maybe its time to include FlameRobin in the default installer?) and lack of good documentation.
