Category: General news

ZDNet writes: "Solid Information Technology, a proprietary database vendor will take its solidDB Storage Engine open source, under the GPL, starting in June. Solid has its base in telecommunications and has 3 million copies out at places like Alcatel, Cisco, EMC, HP, NEC, Nokia, and Nortel." The open source part will be another transactional back-end for a MySQL front-end. New developer experience: porting your apps between different back ends of the same database system.

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Nagios, the premier open source network monitoring program, is celebrating its 2.1 release. With four years of development under its belt, Nagios is powerful enough to replace expensive proprietary monitoring products and become a tool your organization can’t live without. There is a FireBird plugin available for Nagios.

I just read that Red Hat is acquiring JBoss, read more here

Much had been said about the browser as a platform. It was an idea strongly promoted by, the now gone, Netscape at the start of the Web revolution, but we never got there. Did we? Yes, we did! We just did not notice it!
If you take your browsers to this chess game, you might start to understand what I mean.

· Release Candidate 2 ( 2006-04-08 ) ·

Bug Fixes:

– Changed the Service maneger name sent to the server in the
Services API implementation to get it working with Firebird 2.0

– Added a new StoredProcedureColumn concept to the DDEX provider,
to try to fix a problem when dragging selectable stored procedures
from the Server Explorer onto a DataSet.

Changes:

– Changed the way the FbParameter class infers Value data type.

FB Community News reports:

"The new transaction database was developed by Jim Starkey, a noted database software architect who joined MySQL in February", Urlocker said in an interview at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston. "MySQL recognized that Starkey's Netfrastructure had a full relational database. The database is a jewel in the rough, a new engine with a more modern architecture, oriented for use with large-scale applications." What a nice thing to say about Firebird's design. Users will recognize that Firebird is the polished jewel.

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There’s been lots of fuss over Ruby on Rails. Then we had Grails which looks cool too. Then there’s a JavaScript port that could run inside the browser itself.

However I think I’ve seen the future, SQL on rails be sure to checkout the screencast. 🙂

Thanks to Duc for passing on this link – I’m now a convert. 34721 is the magic number…
[ED: via James Strachan’s blog – Yes it’s friday;)]

IBM is today expected to release a near-ready version of its latest database server, code-named Viper, a product designed to snatch market share from rival Oracle and fend off open source challengers. Bob Picciano said "Viper is really aimed at taking [Oracle] out of the market," noting that about 40 per cent of the world's data is in an XML format. He added that DB2 Express-C is helping IBM to maintain customers using open source databases.

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