Firebird related news
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. Among his considerations, Marco see this as a good opportunity to Firebird, a trully OpenSource project (and product):
I think this is another great opportunity for a truly open source and fully independent database like FireBird (and to a much lesser extend for InterBase)
Milan Babuskov added support for Blobs in flamerobin , We have now an poll where we ask how to display the Blob content (on the right side of the site) You can test the new features using the snapshots If you don’t want to build FlameRobin from the sources, but still want to run the bleeding edge version, you can fetch the latest binary snapshot builds from the download section.
Today Bas-X Business Management Services of Queensland, Australia, established a new gold sponsorship. Thanks to Bas-X™ Managing Director Tony Wilder and welcome to the Foundation.
Here is an example on working with ibase/firebird extension in php
O servidor onde o site da FireBase estava hospedado mudou, e com isso o IP também foi alterado. Quem estiver com dificuldades para acessar o site, favor atualizar o cache de DNS.
In English:
FireBase, major Firebird information portal in Brazil, has been moved to a new server. Please refresh all the DNS cache to be able to access the site.
The thread is on joelonsoftware.com and the question is about open source databases :
Quick issue, everyone. My company currently uses SQL Server, but we’re going to look at open-source databases because of MS’s crooked licensing rules (to be honest, they only have one SQL license, and are running it on a two-processor machine). They don’t want to shell out the extra $6,000 for another one, and I don’t blame them.
Article in Spanish
http://www.llodra.es/archives/50
Here is the question on Firebird-Support group
> How did port 3050 get selected as the “gds_db” service port. Was it
> chosen arbitrarily or is there some interesting story behind it? Maybe
> Jim Starkey’s phone number in Groton? 🙂
No story there at all. It was just a number that nobody else seemed
to be using at the time. And don’t ask me to remember a 25 year old
phone number … I barely remember my current number!
Cheers,
Ann
i would like to show you how hard the Core Developers are working (as if you don’t know that already …).
A little graph for you ….
or if you want to full 263 Character URL
UVdata A/S in Denmark has become a FF’s gold sponsor. Thanks, Jan Gaardboe Jensen and team.
