OpenDBX 1.2.1 (Stable) released
Release focus: Minor bugfixes
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A map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the [ED:Evil]Empire of Microsoft.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...[ANN] FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 2 released.
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 2, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.
Download information can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider
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Since many FB users are also Delphi users, it may be interesting to know that CodeGear is opening the Delphi field test group to accept new members. More information here.
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From the Firebird Foundation blog:
The Committee announces that it has approved a new allocation to assist with the work-up and
codebase familiarisation of a “trainee” for Firebird core development.The new allocation has been assigned to Alex Krutyakov, a highly
skilled C++ developer from Moscow. His work-up will be supervised
directly by our code leader Dmitry Yemanov, for a period of six months.
Dmitry plans to ask Alex to work on several of the new modules for
Firebird 3, including:
- Large Exact Numeric support
- Built-in functions
- Shared-disk clustering research
- External database links
We extend a cordial welcome to Alex Krutyakov, who officially joins the core team on Thursday (Feb. 1st).
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Firebird 1.5.4 is released
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that v.1.5.4 of Firebird for Windows and Linux is now released and awaiting your pleasure. Kits should be available from many sites today and more over the weekend.
A number of additional retrospective fixes have been introduced for bugs that became apparent and were fixed in the Firebird 2 tree during the Firebird 2.0 beta cycle.
This is probably the final sub-release of Firebird 1.5.x. It adds no new functionality, although building the software for both Classic and SuperServer for HP-UX11 is now supported.
The Firebird Team
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Sequoia 2.10.5 released
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Want to run Firebird on Windows Vista?
Check out this blog post from Dmitry Kouzmenko about how to run FB on Vista and not loose performance.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Ideal Database for Your Business?
This paper from CodeGear tries to convince users that InterBase 2007 is the best database for them. It even mentions “alternatives” like MySQL, PostgreSQL and …FIREBIRD 1.5!
Of course, like any marketing paper, it tries to show that IB is the best option 😉 But it is curious that they decided to compare IB 2007 with FB 1.5 (instead of 2.0). Also, it seems that most of their “complaints” about FB, like the lack of SMP support, etc. are features that are currently being merged from Vulcan into Firebird 3. The matter of Firebird not having an official support “entity” is shown as a “problem”, but I totally disagree with this, since there is a huge and very active community offering (very good) support for free in discussion lists, and some comercial companies too. I believe that currently Firebird support is even better than IB support from CodeGear.
Anyway, the simple fact that FB is mentioned probably will attract some attention to the project 😉
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