IBEasy+ 1.5
IBEasy+ version 1.5 is now available for download at www.marc-grange.net/telecharger_en.htm
IBEasy+ is a freeware database design and administration tool for Firebird/Interbase. See download page for detailed information.
Marc Grange
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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.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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.
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Hi I’m Pieter Valentijn the Dutch programmer for Turbocash.
I have completed most of the port for Turbocash on Firebird today and would like to tell firebird users about this.
The full source and install can be found here.
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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 😉
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Mini How-To: Firebird .NET Data Provider and DDEX
The .NET Provider for .NET 2.0 comes with ability to be used in Visual Studio in Database Explorer, etc. It’s very usefull, but you have to do some steps to add provider into it. Here you can find how to do this. If you’ll have some questions after, use the Firebird-net-provider list.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” in OSNews
We have a mention is OSNews site! Read it here.
The document is now available in English, Portuguese and Czech. Keep sending your translations!
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Darren wrote an tutorial about installing php5 and firebird 1.5.x on debian/ubuntu
Here is the full text on firebird-php mailing list
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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)
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