DevCo (temporary name for the new company that will assume Borland IDE and InterBase) opened some emails to accept suggestions and questions from the community (a good step forward).
I sent to them 10 suggestions. The email is reproduced in my personal blog, in this post. I hope someone there accept at last some of the suggestions.
Pavel Cisar has discovered a new venue for the 2006 conference in Prague–a new 4-star hotel, Andels, which is located very close to downtown, just across the river, room tariff from 99 EUR/night. We have a firm booking. We will be calling for papers very soon so please watch for that.
Anyone wanting to be on the Firebird-conference mailing list, who’s not on it already, please contact the Secretary (helebor -AT- iinet dot net dot au) using the email address you want to use for the list subscription.
“Not just a database connection wizard, but one that lets you browse tables and drag-and-drop everything from table columns to triggers and stored procedures onto your PHP forms, for MySQL, PostgreSQL, UltraSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, SQLite, or Interbase.“
More info here.
“…I think, to some extent, that Oracle is getting to that perch in the database business. Yet there is a lot of movement in the database business with open source software. We use one called Firebird. They should do something about it.
We had an experience when we were thinking about going public and our consultants said that we needed to get off SAS for our internal ERP work because it is just not a recognised brand and they suggested Oracle. It was Ernst and Young and we spent three or four years and $10m and it was just outrageous. And in the release (of Oracle) that we were working on there were over 10,000 bugs. That’s horrible.“
Read complete article here.
From IBPhoenix – Adarvo Ltd, Switzerland (www.adarvo.net) run a collaboration server that is based on a Firebird database. Current (May 2006) size of the database is about 49GB and there are more than 2000 customers currently using the service at this site.
Dear Friends,
Please take a few minutes to complete our online Survey on Firebird, which explores trends in the usage of Firebird. Your opinions will make a significant contribution to our research.
To thank you for participating, we will give you the survey results free of charge and in advance of their public release. To have your views included, please complete the survey before Monday, May 22.
To take the survey, please go to: surveys.mavenz.com
DebianHelp brings an article about installing Firebird on Debian Linux, as well gives the first steps to change SYSDBA password, creating a DB, etc.
From Dmitry Yemanov – For those who’s not yet aware – Linux x86 snapshot builds are available at www.dqteam.com/fb2/. They include a few recent builds of the Firebird 2.0 release candidate as well as builds from the HEAD branch (where new development happens).
Win32 snapshot builds (Firebird 2.0 only) are still here.
Snapshots are intended for Firebird developers and experienced beta testers. These builds are untested and provided with no guarantees.
It seems that MacPro Office Manager uses Firebird as its backend database.
Coverity Inc. of San Francisco has released the results of a Homeland Security Department-funded bug hunt that ranged across 40 popular open-source programs.
[Ed: Claudio Valderrama already posted comments about the Firebird results here.]
