Category: Worth Reading

Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.

FB 2.0 on 3rd place

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From Jiri Cincura:

On local conference (“Databazovy svet” – can be translated as “database world”) has been Firebird 2 awarded on 3rd place in database product of year competition.

Nomination was:

  • Firebird 2
  • IBM DB2 Universal Database 9 Enterprise Server Edition (IBM)
  • Informix Dynamic Server 10 Enterprise Edition (IBM)
  • MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (Microsoft)
  • Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition (Oracle)
  • PostgreSQL 8.2
  • Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0 Enterprise Edition (Sybase)

MS got 1st place, 2nd Oracle and 3rd FB 😉

flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo

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I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s
portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can
then

emerge flamerobin on Gentoo

.net embedded firebird on vista report

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It’s a winform .net 2 business app that is very data centric and we tested initially with the embedded FireBird database driver which I had a gut feeling was going to be trouble, but absolutely no problems at all and every aspect is significantly faster than on the same computer with the same hardware exactly but different operating systems.

you can read the full experience on code project

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