Sequoia 2.10.5 released
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Check out this blog post from Dmitry Kouzmenko about how to run FB on Vista and not loose performance.
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 ๐ 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 ๐
There is a discussion going on in a Indonesian Delphi forum about Firebird wishlist. You can check it here.
Dabo 0.7.2 was released at Jan 18, 2007.
Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. And while Dabo is designed to create database-centric apps, that is not a requirement. Lots of people are using Dabo for the GUI tools to create apps that have no need to connect to a database at all.
Currently, Dabo supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite backends, but in the near future it will support all databases that have drivers that conform to the Python dbapi.
Lucene.Net 2.0 final (build 3) was released on 27 December 2006.
New release with Firebird/Interbase bugs fixed
EMS Data Generator 2.3 is now available and can be downloaded from the download pages Download Data Generator for IB/FB Whatโs new in Data Generator version 2.3 |
The Examiner Newspaper was approached to be a supporting partner in Ken
Gourlay’s solo sailing endeavour around the world as a fund raising effort
for research into eyesight disorders.