How much would be the cost to develop Firebird from scratch?
Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.
Category: Firebird in the press
Find where Firebird is being mentioned in the press
LinuxInsider article mentions Firebird
“Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use” mentions Firebird, although has some interesting (to not say funny) mistakes, like:
the Firebird Project is based on the source code released by Borderland Software, formerly known as “Imprecise“, in July of 2000.
Should we mention this as “joke of the day”? 🙂
Firebird listed in Brazilian magazine
The Brazilian magazine “Pequenas empresas & Grandes negócios” (something like Small enterprises & Big business) reviewed a few databases in its March/2007 edition. Firebird had an 8.0 but stayed behind PostgreSQL (8.7) and MySQL (8.5). It doesn’t say what was the criteria of analysis used in the ranking. One more time, the lack of default graphical administration utility was listed as a bad thing.
Info Exame reviews FB 2
Info Exame is a major computer magazine publication in Brazil. In the April edition, they published a 2 pages review of FB 2. Although it is not a deep review, it is a good propaganda for FB. The “cons” listed are mostly lack of default graphical interface (maybe its time to include FlameRobin in the default installer?) and lack of good documentation.
Testing a Non-Rails Application Using Rails
Rails developers working on enterprise software projects are suprised to discover the lack of automated tests in many mature web applications. As frustrating as this can be, A lack of automated tests is also a tremendous opportunity to
Delphi For PHP Released – firebird related article on slashdot
Here is the original article and the interbase/firebird mention
Codegear (now a subsidiary of Borland) has just released version 1.0 of Delphi for PHP, a RAD development environment (running on Windows) that produces standard PHP code. It features a large set of built-in components, including ones that use AJAX for database access; and Codegear is encouraging users to develop their own components. The framework, VCL for PHP, is open source, and documentation follows the PHP model. Initial database connectivity is for MySQL and Interbase (Codegear’s commercial database that spawned the open-source Firebird), but more are promised.
firebirdsql.ru new firebird related website
spotted via opennet.ru’s firebird 2.0.1 release announcement (scroll down to the end)
Delphi for PHP supports Firebird
David I just posted in his blog that the new Delphi for PHP supports Firebird, along with many other databases.
Using firebird from command line
Article in Italian on database.html.it
Fyracle article in German
a German article about Fyracle has been published in the current edition
of the “Entwickler Magazin”. Selected articles are also available
online. The Fyracle article is one of them. You can read it here (in
German):
http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,8,online,1145,p,0.html
