Find where Firebird is being mentioned in the press
I their latest issue, Bosnian IT magazine INFO published an article about TAMP Project (where I work), and this is one of Firebird success stories…
I have scanned those 3 pages (Bosnian language), and our translator have translated article to English (HTML)
Part of this article is Interview with Federal Tax Administration Director
Contributed by Fikret Hasovic on fyracle.org website
Several months ago I have written article about Firebird for
Bosnian IT magazine INFO.
Here you can read original text (Bosnian language, scanned pages), and also English translation (HTML)
Contributed by Fikret Hasovic on fyracle.org website
For those of you data hounds out there that use open source databases.
May I suggest the excellent Firebird, coupled with IBexpert, as opposed to mySQL.
I have found it a heck of a lot easier to design and implement stored procedures. It is open source and rock solid.
That is J. J. Walter’s opinion about firebird , expressed in his blog.
A recent press release from Ratmir Labs, mentions Firebird as one of their key technologies.
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Firebird – Dicas de segurança was just released in the Brazilian market. The book, written in Portuguese by Luiz Paulo de O. Santos, gives to the reader tips about doing a secure instalation of Firebird as well using third party tools (like ZeBeDee) to run Firebird in a more secure way. Luiz was one of the speakers at the Firebird Conference 2005. |
“The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a U.S. government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.” – Read more here.
Firebird is in the list of the Open Source tested software. I plan to put some more information about this here in FirebirdNews as soons as I put my hands on it.
Now there seems to be a clear response. MySQL has hired former Firebird developer Jim Starkey and MySQL has a new CTO: Taneli Otala – read Kaj Arnö’s interview with Taneli.
The final statement on this interview declares a clear goal: “Definitely. I want to be part of the team building the world’s best database!”. The times when MySQL targeted itself mainly to drive small and medium web based applications are definitely over!
Read more on db4free blog
We have a mention is OSNews site! Read it here.
The document is now available in English, Portuguese and Czech. Keep sending your translations!
The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include LQ conference updates, 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, your feedback on LQ, the LQ Articles and Editorials section, the MySQL acquisition of Netfrastructure, more on the MySQL, Oracle, SAP rumors and the TCO study sponsored by OSDL and Levanta.
–jeremy
ED:Members Choice Awards For Databases (will be published in 6March)
If it’s interesting for Firebird & Turbocash:
All our applications run using Firebird, in 3-tier mode. The 2 flagships applications are:
– School administration software. – Used by 1000+ schools in Flanders.
– Accounting program. – Also used by 1000+ schools in Flanders, and by regular companies as well.
