Firebird related news
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.
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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?
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.
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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 |
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.
Philippe Makowski posted in FB-Support:
Just to inform you and despite it is not yet official, but Mandriva is soon releasing their Corporate Server 4 distro and on the same time, their will be an official Firebird 2.0 package that will be available as additional software for this version.
Mandriva Corporate Server is the sell with support from Mandriva and the Firebird will be supported by IBPhoenix.So if you need an 5-year Product Maintenance, professional support, Mandriva will be a good choice.
Of course, the package will be also available from Cooker.
My new book, Firebird 2, was released today in Brazil, by Ciencia Moderna publisher. The preface (from Ann Harrison) and the summary can be downloaded here (in portuguese).
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Today is Dmitry Yemanov birthday 🙂 Let’s give him 10 min. of “no Firebird coding” time, so he can enjoy a piece of the cake!
