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Firebird related news
Fyracle keynote at Software Development GigaCon
Firebird's Oracle-mode will be a keynote speech at the Software Development GigaCon in Warsaw, Poland. It is the largest software conference in that part of the world.
Read more here
FB in Word Community Grid
“World Community Grid’s mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals – like you – collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.” I just found a Firebird team on it.
Ratmir Labs Introduces IT Outsourcing Complex Software Development
A recent press release from Ratmir Labs, mentions Firebird as one of their key technologies.
Open Development – Firebird related
Gianugo kicked off good discussion on a mailing list (message reposted to the
Feather blog). It gets at an idea that has been floating around for a
good
while, that Open Source does not equate to Open Development, and
while the difference is glaring obvious to folks who have been
around open source for a while, it is not so to many others.
Firebird Coverity tests results
I’m publishing the results of the coverity tests ran against Firebird 2.0 at 6/March/2006. For those who doesn’t know what is this: some months ago, USA government sponsored some companies to find bugs in popular Open Source projects, in a way to make them more secure. Firebird was in the software list. Now the first results are being published.
First results of Homeland’s sponsored tests
“The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a U.S. government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.” – Read more here.
Firebird is in the list of the Open Source tested software. I plan to put some more information about this here in FirebirdNews as soons as I put my hands on it.
RC1 is coming
It seems that there will be no BETA3 for Firebird 2.0. In a recent chat with Dmitry Yemanov, he told me that he is working in the RC1 release. Very good news, it iseems that FB 2.0 is getting stable enough and we will have a final version in a short time 😉
Smart moves by MySQL AB
Now there seems to be a clear response. MySQL has hired former Firebird developer Jim Starkey and MySQL has a new CTO: Taneli Otala – read Kaj Arnö’s interview with Taneli.
The final statement on this interview declares a clear goal: “Definitely. I want to be part of the team building the world’s best database!”. The times when MySQL targeted itself mainly to drive small and medium web based applications are definitely over!
Read more on db4free blog
LinuxQuestions.org Podcast – Mentions MySQL’s acquisition of Netfrastructure
The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include LQ conference updates, 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, your feedback on LQ, the LQ Articles and Editorials section, the MySQL acquisition of Netfrastructure, more on the MySQL, Oracle, SAP rumors and the TCO study sponsored by OSDL and Levanta.
–jeremy
ED:Members Choice Awards For Databases (will be published in 6March)