Month: April 2006

Firebird mentioned in two articles

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IT-Director.com – A phenomenon of Open Source has been that a single product normally emerges in any given category. Firefox (browser), Linux (OS), Apache (Web Server) and JBoss (middleware stack) are all examples. The only market where more than one product seems to have emerged is database—which is dominated by MySQL, but also served by FireBird, SleepyCat, Ingres and others. – Read more here.

ZDNet – MySQL is not alone in that thinking. Other established open-source databases include PostgreSQL and Firebird. – Read more here.

hk_classes 0.8.1 released (Default branch)

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hk_classes is a set of C++ libraries for rapid development of database applications with all features a modern database application should have, like forms and reports. hk_classes is database and GUI independent. It also includes command line tools to use hk_classes in scripts. hk_classes includes drivers for DBase, Firebird…

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