Borland is expected to announce a deal during the next few weeks having picked a buyer from a shortlist of three candidates narrowed from 10, sources told The Register. The deal is believed to be worth between $100m and $150m. More info here.
The new IBO subrelease (4.6Bc) supports all the new features of Firebird 2.0. You can download a trial and get more info at the IBO site.
ComputerWorld site published an article about Firebird:
Weeks praised Firebird’s “super server” architecture, which is a “drop-in replacement” for MySQL and can do whatever MySQL can do “with its eyes closed”. – Read full article here.
Here is a site with dozens of database models to be downloaded. Thanks Fabio Alves for sending the link.
Interesting article can be read here. Thanks for Fabio Alves for sending the link.
My new book, Firebird 2, was released today in Brazil, by Ciencia Moderna publisher. The preface (from Ann Harrison) and the summary can be downloaded here (in portuguese).
Today is Dmitry Yemanov birthday 🙂 Let’s give him 10 min. of “no Firebird coding” time, so he can enjoy a piece of the cake!
EvansData opened a new survey related to open source software, and Firebird is listed in two questions:
Which Open Source databases do you use most often?
What database are you using on the platform for which MOST of your applications are targeted?
Let’s vote for Firebird! Click here and vote now!
As we know, if you want to distribute MySQL with your application for free, you need to release your application code under GPL, and that’s something that many users doesn’t want to do.
Until now, there was always the option of delivering your application alone, and downloading the MySQL binaries from MySQL site – the license allows this. With the old version binaries not being available for download anymore, many current MySQL customers are in serious trouble, if they want to stay legal.
Of course, there is the option of upgrading the applications to work with the most recent MySQL version, but I presume people needs to be prepared for some compatibility problems. I guess many people out there still uses MySQL 3 and 4 with their software, and wasn’t thinking to move to 5.0 very soon.
For those people, my advice is to check the “Get to know Firebird in two minutes” paper and discover how good, powerful and simple Firebird is. If you have to move to a new MySQL version, maybe it would be better to move to Firebird instead!
Dan Letecky published an article about using embedded version of Firebird with .Net applications:
Firebird is a database with 20 years of history, full set of features (including transactions, stored procedures, hot-backup, excellent scalability, etc.) and a friendly open source license. It is an overlooked but compelling alternative to Microsoft Jet and Microsoft MSDE 2000/SQL Express 2005. Let’s take a look at how it can be used embedded in your desktop application. What makes Embedded Firebird ideal for embedding:
Read the full article here.
