Cantu, Author at Firebird News

FB 2.0 on 3rd place

December 2, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

From Jiri Cincura:

On local conference (“Databazovy svet” – can be translated as “database world”) has been Firebird 2 awarded on 3rd place in database product of year competition.

Nomination was:

Firebird 2
IBM DB2 Universal Database 9 Enterprise Server Edition (IBM)
Informix Dynamic Server 10 Enterprise Edition (IBM)
MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (Microsoft)
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition (Oracle)
PostgreSQL 8.2
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0 Enterprise Edition (Sybase)

MS got 1st place, 2nd Oracle and 3rd FB 😉

FB/IB page in About

December 2, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

About.com has a page with many links of information and/or tools related to Firebird and InterBase. You can check it here.

Python Papers

December 1, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

As an Associate Member of the Firebird Foundation and Associate Editor of The Python Papers, I warmly broadcast the launch of a new periodical, The Python Papers.

It can be found at http://www.pythonpapers.org and is archived at http://archive.pythonpapers.org/. The Python Papers is published under the Creative Commons Licence 2.5 with non-commercial, attribution, and share-alike conditions. However, individual authors retains the right to re-licence their work.

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MySQL, InterBase, FireBird, SQL Server: Prices and Licences

November 27, 2006 Cantu 3 comments

A different moral? FireBird needs some marketing to let people know… it is the only really open source DB.

Check this interesting post on Marco Cantu blog.

Mandriva and IBPhoenix are now partners

November 23, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

Read the full announcement here. Thanks to collaboration between IBPhoenix and Mandriva, Mandriva Linux is now the distribution offering the best integrated support for Firebird 2.0.

New revision of “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” is available

November 23, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

A new version of the document (1.1) is available here. It contains some links updates, new information, etc. Expect translations of the new version to come soon.

More conference pictures

November 21, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

I created a new web album in google with all my pictures from the latest conference. You can check it here.

Firebird Metadata Synchronizer v1.0

November 20, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

Tech Solutions are proud to announce the availability of Firebird Metadata
Synchronizer (FMS), a Windows utility that allows software developers & DBAs working with the open source Firebird SQL database, a simple and inexpensive way to migrate database changes from server to server. Retailing at $US39.00, FMS is an inexpensive solution to the problem of revising system DDL metadata.

Firebird 2.0 in Computerworld

November 20, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

ComputerWorld announced in its site the release of Firebird 2.0.

xStarter FBIB

November 20, 2006 Cantu Leave a comment

xStarter FBIB is a job scheduler with special features for Firebird. It allow not only perform backup/restore or maintenance procedures but also execute SQL scripts at specified time.

You can read more about it here.

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