How open source databases will kill mssql server

[I agree with the open source databases vs mssql part, if you look at netcraft or browser stats: apache and firefox are growing stronger than the other side (dark side), so it happens in the db space]

10.MySQL / PostgrSQL / Firebird threatens MS SQL Server. SQL Server is the one division that showed a modest profit in 2004, but many database professionals are switching Open Source alternatives. Even though sales for SQL Server is growing, it is growing at a slower rate than the overall market.

Read more at toorg.blogspot.com/2006…

Language Survey results

Today we are closing the “What is you main language used with FB?“. The survey got 1,268 answers, and the final result can be viewed here.

Delphi is the winner with 65% of the votes, followed by Java and PHP (both with 7%) and C# with 6%.

Now you can vote in our new poll (check it at the sidebar).

Improved remote protocol

From Dmitry Yemanov – The remote protocol has been slightly improved to perform better in slow networks. In order to achieve this, more advanced packets batching is now performed, also there are some buffer transmission optimizations. In a real world test scenario, these changes showed about 50% less API roundtrips, thus causing about 40% less TCP roundtrips. Hopefully, this is an improvement some our users could benefit from (mostly it should affect over-the-internet database access).

This work has been committed into the HEAD branch to be included into the next Firebird version. Further protocol improvements are also planned.

EMS Data Export 2007 is now available!

EMS Data Export 2007 for InterBase/Firebird

EMS Company is pleased to announce
Data Export 2007 for InterBase/Firebird version 3.0
– the new version of the powerful tool to export your data quickly from Firebird and InterBase databases.

You can download the latest version at: www.sqlmanager.net/products/ibfb/dataexport/download

David Intersimone on Borland spin-out "DevCo"

The leadership team of DevCo includes: Nigel Brown, Michael Swindell, Steve Todd, Alan Bauer, Ben Netick, and David Intersimone. They have 3-year roadmaps for Delphi, JBuilder, and Interbase. The size of DevCo will be ~250-300 at the start, i.e. about 20% of Borland's workforce. "Develop" has $100 mln in sales, about 30% of the total. Sounds like "DevCo" will be quite profitable from the start.

Read more here

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