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!

SAS’s Goodnight won’t say goodbye yet

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“…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.

Adarvo and Firebird

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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.

Survey on Firebird

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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

Snapshot builds

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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.

Language Survey results

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Today we are closing the “What is you main language used with FB?“. The survey got 1,268 answers, and the final result can be viewed here.

Delphi is the winner with 65% of the votes, followed by Java and PHP (both with 7%) and C# with 6%.

Now you can vote in our new poll (check it at the sidebar).

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