Find where Firebird is being mentioned in the press
From the FUD department Here is one sponsored article
The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero
Marco has expressed his opinion about the actual relationship between Borland/CodeGear and Firebird in his blog:
As Carlos Cantu noted, it is very relevant that one of the InterBase engineers (Sriram Balasubramanian) blogged his congratulations. This gives me a good chance to reiterate something I mentioned many times on my blog, my hope that CodeGear (and the Delphi team in particular) will consider Firebird as a partner and not as a competitor of InterBase (the project Firebird was spinned off with Borland/Inprise original blessing). In my opinion, the key priority is to fully support Firebird in dbExpress with a specific driver, but official IBX support will also be nice to have.
Article on ZDNet about Sourceforge Marketplace mention Firebird as a “major Open Source” project. Read more here.
December is Firebird’s turn to be Project of the Month at Sourceforge
For those who are curious to see the trophies we won in the recent Sourceforge.net Community Choice awards, there’s a photo to view. The gizmos make horrible noises. The engraved marble plinths weigh 2 Kgs each…
The awards party was an blast , And i liked This “screensaver” video that played on monitors during the party.
Article published in OsNews mentions Firebird:
“…As remarked earlier on, Free Pascal is shipped with the RTL and FCL code libraries. The FCL comes with components for accessing databases such as Oracle, Firebird, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL and any ODBC enabled database”.
Read more here.
From InfoWorld:
SourceForge unveils the winners of the ‘open-source Oscars’
“…The Firebird relational database was another double winner, being voted both best project for the enterprise and the project providing the best user support.”
Congratulations for all who made this possible: The Firebird Project and all the people who voted!
Read full article here.
Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/
News via phoronix.com
One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free — alternatives to traditional solutions.
[ED: no wonder that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year]
It was the event of the interesting form that the seminar which centers the up-to-date information of Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSQL which are called the Open Source Database big three, is done in the presentation of each user group member.
