Firebird 2.0 in Computerworld
ComputerWorld announced in its site the release of Firebird 2.0.
Category: Firebird in the press
Find where Firebird is being mentioned in the press
Open Source and Commercial Vendors – A study of the relational database market.
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
Morfik and Firebird
From ComputerWorld:
The AJAX-based product features a visual designer and cross-compiling capabilities for programming in C#, Java, Visual Basic and Object Pascal. An embeddable Firebird database and Apache Web server also are included for application deployments. With WebOS AppsBuilder, Morfik saves developers from having to learn new languages for Web development such as PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) or Python.
Full article here.
Firebird in Dicas-L
Luiz Paulo just published an article (in portuguese) in Dicas-L site. Dicas-L is visited by thousands of computer users in Brazil. The link to the article “Firebird news around the world” is here.
Huge test case for Firebird at SOFTOOL’06
Alexey Kovyazin and Dmitry Yemanov were present at Softool 2006, showing a really big test drive for Firebird:
The test used a Russian ERP called Avarda connecting a Firebird 2.0 Classic server. Environment was 30 desktops and 1 power server imitating Avarda working with 100 simulatenous clients accessing a 120Gb Firebird database with 700 million records! Server was a SMP machine (2 CPUs – Dell PowerEdge 2950) and 6GB RAM.
You can see a small video from Softool with Alexey and Dmitry Yemanov here.
The Name “Firefox” Not Allowed In Ubuntu/Debian?
Related to the Firebird name and Firefox trademark defending (You will spot firebird mentioned in the second link)
One more interview from 3rd FDD is online
HardSoft #277 brings another interview from the 3rd Firebird Developers Day conference. This time Luiz Paulo de O. Santos talks about Firebird security and why people should contribute with Firebird Foundation. Video is available (and also shows some general images from the conference) – audio is in portuguese.
Using FireBird RDBMS +VB article
This open-source RDBMS has functionality similar to MySQL and Oracle …
You will learn how to Create a database in FireBird and build a VB front end for it
pcQuest Article by Sanjay Majumder
“NRI Open Source Map” Rates Open Source Software
Japanease research company published a chart “NRI opensource map” that judged the practical use degree of the open source software.
Firebird listed on the area can be used for enterprise systems.
Regards,
KIMURA, Meiji(FAMILY, Given)
Board chairman of the Firebird Japan Users Association for 2006
FDD on TV
HardSoft TV presented in program #275 an interview with me (Carlos H. Cantu) recorded during the 3º Firebird Developers Day. You can watch it online now (audio is in portuguese). In the next programs (released every 2 weeks), there will be other interviews with other FDD speakers.