The Great 2006 Software Review -blog of the day

[ED: he added Firebird 2.0 RC3 in his list of great software releases for the previous year but he forgot that firebird final was released in November]

2006 was a great year for software. I thought I would make my first post of the new year as a review of the software that was released last year that caught my interest. This is software that I think will have an impact on the world (some big, some small). It is not necessarily software that I use on a regular basis (or at all :).

SEFIP now uses Firebird

SEFIP is an application used by almost 1.5 millions of companies in Brazil to collect/pay social welfare tributes. It is distributed by Caixa Econômica Federal (a federal bank), and in its latest version (8.3) it replaced InterBase 6.0 with Firebird. With this change, Firebird embedded installed servers base in Brazil grow in some millions.

You can find the announcement here (in portuguese – self extract exe containing a PDF file).

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