Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird users prefers Firefox
Curiosity of the day
Looking Google Analytics statistics for FirebirdNews site, it is clear that most of Firebird users prefers Firefox over IE. Check the stats below:
- Firefox 55.81%
- Internet Explorer 33.32%
- Opera 7.31%
- Mozilla 2.13%
How much would be the cost to develop Firebird from scratch?
Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.
Firebird job for the weekend – on rentacoder
Job for the weekend : Add Stored Procedures To Firebird Database
Another interesting one is about crypting stored procedures in Firebird.
Keep your eye on the Firebird related jobs
Feedback on Firebird Appliance
The thread is here
Follow the Progress of JRuby on Rails
Charles Nutter has been keeping an updated page of Rails test run results that shows progress towards the goal of a fully-functioning JRuby on Rails. Members of the JRuby team have already demonstrated Rails applications working on JRuby, and even ActiveRecord talking to databases via JDBC. To be clear, what we’re talking about here is the effort to get the sizable Rails test suite running at 100% passing.
new package added firebird2.0.1-doc in debian
Documentation files for firebird database version 2.0.1
Various documents for firebird 2.0.1, inclluding release notes, what’s new in firebird 2.0.1, quick start guide, list of ISQL enhancements etc.
Firebird wiki
Firebird wiki site is ready now. http://wiki.firebirdsql.org
Oracle licenses Open Invention Network patents
I guess patent “protection” apply to firebird too
Oracle has signed a patent agreement with the Open Invention Network (OIN).
More firebird ports
In the following months I’ll try to port firebird to all architectures
currently supported by Debian.