From IBPhoenix – Adarvo Ltd, Switzerland (www.adarvo.net) run a collaboration server that is based on a Firebird database. Current (May 2006) size of the database is about 49GB and there are more than 2000 customers currently using the service at this site.
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DebianHelp brings an article about installing Firebird on Debian Linux, as well gives the first steps to change SYSDBA password, creating a DB, etc.
From Dmitry Yemanov – For those who’s not yet aware – Linux x86 snapshot builds are available at www.dqteam.com/fb2/. They include a few recent builds of the Firebird 2.0 release candidate as well as builds from the HEAD branch (where new development happens).
Win32 snapshot builds (Firebird 2.0 only) are still here.
Snapshots are intended for Firebird developers and experienced beta testers. These builds are untested and provided with no guarantees.
It seems that MacPro Office Manager uses Firebird as its backend database.
Coverity Inc. of San Francisco has released the results of a Homeland Security Department-funded bug hunt that ranged across 40 popular open-source programs.
[Ed: Claudio Valderrama already posted comments about the Firebird results here.]
Today we are closing the “What is you main language used with FB?“. The survey got 1,268 answers, and the final result can be viewed here.
Delphi is the winner with 65% of the votes, followed by Java and PHP (both with 7%) and C# with 6%.
Now you can vote in our new poll (check it at the sidebar).
The article gives general overviews of many free and open source databases. Firebird is among the listed SGBDs.
For those who are interested, FBReplicator has received an update to fix a few small bugs and enhance the GUI on the Replicator Manager. See www.meta.com.au for more details. Regards,
Alan McDonald.
From Dmitry Yemanov – The remote protocol has been slightly improved to perform better in slow networks. In order to achieve this, more advanced packets batching is now performed, also there are some buffer transmission optimizations. In a real world test scenario, these changes showed about 50% less API roundtrips, thus causing about 40% less TCP roundtrips. Hopefully, this is an improvement some our users could benefit from (mostly it should affect over-the-internet database access).
This work has been committed into the HEAD branch to be included into the next Firebird version. Further protocol improvements are also planned.
