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FBTalk.net is now back online :-)
I accidentally dropped the db that was used by FBTalk.net [ED:that is why it didn’t worked friday and gave some connection errors], this has now been
restored and http://www.FBTalk.net is now back up and running 🙂
Rgds
Si Carter
Let’s help Marina to win the contest!
Vote for Marina Novikova (Attention: her NUMBER is 475), from DevRace and InterBaseWorld, so she can win the Surf contest! Right now she is in the 2nd place! More information here.
16 cores mips cpu ready – just in time for the firebird port
here is the article about the new 16 cores mips cpu , On cnet there is an picture with full server built around that cpu [it might work with firebird on linux mips ]
ps: anyone with an ultrasparc t1 (niagara) based system and linux loaded on it?
oracle and linux and firebird = rant of the day
Here are some rants about oracle, linux and oss databases
Will Oracle ever befriend Linux and actually prove that something can be given in return? At present, Oracle competes with and destroys some of the business that MySQL, Firebird, and PostgreSQL have conquered with Linux and pure Open Source software.
Voting: please support me in the contest
Dear friends!
Please VOTE for me (Marina Novikova) at the contest (Attention: my NUMBER is 475). The voting will end this Sunday, every vote is very important (now I am second, 400 votes to the leader).
You can read about my website InterBase World .
Please VOTE for me (Marina Novikova) and I will have a chance to win a 2-week trip to the surf-riding school in Indonesia, Bali.
SAP and in-memory DBs
While SAP has no designs to be a database vendor—it tried and failed with MaxDB, which is now part of the MySQL community—sources close to the company have suggested that SAP could be working on a hybrid approach or something similar. “Basically there is no reason SAP couldn’t work with IBM and others on making [in-memory] work well on hardware,” said a source close to the company who requested anonymity. “Probably that’s the company that would be the most benefited. The vendor that [it] would be most disruptive for would be Oracle.”
Read full article here.
EdNote: Would Firebird be a good candidate?
Spread FBNews posts
The FirebirdNews site now offers pre-built links in every post, to make it easier to users share it in many “social bookmarking” sites, like Digg, Del.icio.us, etc. You can find the “share” links (gliphs) at the end of each post.
DB Extract 2005 for InterBase/Firebird ver 2.1 released
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EMS Software Development company is pleased to announce DB Extract 2005 ver.2.1 – new version of the powerful utility for creating database backups in a form of SQL scripts. What’s new in DB Extract 2.1?
You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/extract/download |
FIBPlus 6.45 has been released
Devrace developers continue to improve FIBPlus library and make it better compatible with Firebird 2 (in particular now FIBPlus supports charset UTF8 fields for Firebird 2). That’s why the newest FIBPlus version 6.45 has a number of improvements and 16 bug fixes. FIBPlus 6.45 also supports C++ Builder 2006. For more details please check Release Notes. Fully functional FIBPlus trial version is available for download.