Month: August 2007

Devrace announce availability of BlazeTop version 1.8.0.125

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Devrace announce availability of BlazeTop version 1.8.0.125 with 11
new features and 6 bug fixes.

BlazeTop (former SQLHammer), a tool for database development and administration. Its highly effective ideology has been elaborated due to close cooperation with professional database developers and administrators. It mainly uses a module model similar to that of Delphi/C++Builder, and thus its interface is absolutely handy for its users. BlazeTop architecture is based on component and dynamic module style that enables us to support different database servers and engines. The current BlazeTop version supports Borland InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil

SQLAlchemy 0.4 beta1

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SQLAlchemy version 0.4, the biggest release SQLAlchemy has ever had,
is released in its first beta.

If you haven’t been following along, it’s time to catch up ! An
overview-in-progress of whats new is at http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/wiki/WhatsNewIn04

And, quoting project’s leader:

We also desperately need beta testers for these platforms: MS-SQL, Firebird, and Informix. 0.4 has been tested extensively with SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, and Oracle.

Database Workbench 2.8.9 released

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Ladies, gentlemen,

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular database development tool:

Database Workbench 2.8.9 has been released today!

Download a trial at: http://www.upscene.com
Full list of features and fixes: http://www.upscene.com/news/20070813.htm

Database Workbench supports:

  • Borland InterBase ( 4.x – 8.x )
  • Firebird ( 1.x, 2.0 )
  • MS SQL Server/MSDE ( v6.5, 7, 2000, 2005, MSDE 1 & 2, SQL Express )
  • MySQL 4, 4.1, 5.0
  • Oracle Database ( 8i, 9i, 10g )
  • NexusDB ( 2.05 and up )

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KInterbasDB Leader Drowns

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It was with sorrow that we learned of the death last month of David S. Rushby, aged 27, in a drowning accident in the Black Sea at Anapa, Russia. David has been the sole developer and maintainer of our KInterbasDB Python interface for some years. For the last nine months he worked as project manager in the information technology division of Tander, Inc. in Krasnodar, Russia. Our sympathies to his parents, Mr and Mrs W. F. Rushby, of Blue Grass, VA, U.S.A., and family. Obituary.

MySQL Takes Another Step (Away from Open Source)

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In the ongoing effort to convert more users into paying customers, MySQL announced today that they are no longer making the source code tarball for their Enterprise server publicly available. You could see this coming from a million miles away.

http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2007/08/mysql-takes-another-step-away-from-open-source.html [ED: so this could be more space for firebird in  open source enterprise area]

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