mariuz, Author at Firebird News

Lukas Smith just released his dissertation for the Technical University of Berlin on the developing economics of open source databases and what it means for the databse market in general. He spent a year interviewing dozens of people involved with OSSDBs, so there’s quite a bit of material there.

via Josh Berkus blog

flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo

November 6, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then

emerge flamerobin on Gentoo

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Recent porting efforts

November 2, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

Two Linux ports have been contributed recently – MIPSEL and PowerPC (credits go to Fabrice Aeschbacher and Damyan Ivanov). Also, Paul Beach has ported v1.5.3 to HP-UX (already available for download) and Alex Peshkoff has almost completed porting the same version to AIX. And finally, port to Win64 (so far AMD64 and EM64T only) is committed into the HEAD branch and will be available in the v2.1 release.

via Firebird Developer’s Journal

What’s your favorite database engine on Linux?

November 2, 2006 mariuz Leave a comment

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird , Oracle or some other more or less popular engine? Please vote, so that we all have better picture of the popularity of a particular database on Linux. It takes only a second, results available immediately!