Category: General news

Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉

We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!

Thanks to the progressive death of the NAS server from which all our Internet facilities are served, we lost everything – Tracker, website, Wiki, Windows snapshots and news mirrors – piece-by-piece over the past days.

By gargantuan effort, Sean Leyne and his colleagues at Broadview have been reconstructing our infrastructure from scratch. The main website http://www.firebirdsql.org is up but some pieces, such as Windows snapshots, are still missing.  Windows snapshots should be available some time today.

The other servers are more challenging, requiring radical reconstruction using new versions of underlying software, and will take time.

For now, if you find broken links (other than those to our other servers) then please feel free to inform us via a message to this list.

More info as it comes to light.

Helen

Softpedia seems to be one of the most visited IT related sites (at least the forums) in my country according to traffic.ro stats so i have updated the firebird related pages.
We need honest reviews there and some votes
Here is the page for the mac ,here is for Linux and there is for Windows.
ps:Later i will add some screenshots to the pages and update the instalation guides.

From Monty (MySQL original author) blog:

As I already blogged before, a fork is not enough to keep MySQL alive for all future, if Oracle, as the copyright holder of MySQL, would at any point decide that they should kill MySQL or make parts of MySQL closed source.

Firebird is trully *open* (in all aspects). Nobody owns Firebird, nobody can buy it, nobody can close its sources, nobody can charge for it! So, if you are using Firebird, you don’t need to have such worries.

I’m impressed about the new django-firebird driver from svn.No more patching needed for the first 5 chapters in the django book.
Now i’m at chapter 6 from django book and all worked without issues until now.
So i have updated django+firebird post and examples from the book are tested with django 1.1.1 and firebird-django from svn
Maxi Robaina wrote on the new firebird-django-dev list when i told him about my positive impressions:

There is certainly plenty to do and still improve much
more.

ps:
I will integrate django with firebirdsql.ro: content administration and blogs/news.

The download counter on sourceforge geeknet for all downloads is over 7 Millions , and the stats shows that traffic is growing

If you use it then is better to recommend it on SourceForge’s Ratings and Reviews area or click on I use this button on Oloh