Sorry for the few days off-line. The big increase in the website visitors extrapolated (for the first time) our bandwidth limit. Due to Xmas vacation, I was able to check the problem just today. I have doubled the bandwidth limit. Let the people stay coming 😉
From FB events page:
Coming up in 2010 :: Firebird’s 10th birthday, July 31
Watch this space for details of events as plans evolve.
We are glad to announce that we now support Firebird as backend. The good news for us is that it just took 4 hours to get it working and even with the 100% of the tests in green.
OpenDBX supports Firebird since a lot of time but we didn’t have too much time to try it. I wanted to “give a hand” to Norbert generating all dlls for each new release. I didn’t have ever used Firebird neither Sybase. So, I started with Firebird and now it is working like a charm.
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We wish all of you, users, developers, etc, a very nice Christmas, and an awesome New Year! In 2.010, Firebird will complete 10 years of existance, and we hope it will be a very special year!
MySQL is used in most segments of the fragmented open source database market, including the Web app space, (along with SQLite), the desktop space (along with Firebird), and in the embedded market.
Read full article at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.
StackOverflow will publish ads for free (only for Open Source projects.) I have made an image for Firebird but lacked rights/points to upload it. Douglas uploaded it, but we need more votes to put the spotlight over our bird. If you have an account in StackOverflow with at last 15 reputation points, please, vote now.
Carlos
The Firebird Atkins NewsServer, the FB tracker and the website are temporary down and will come back in a few days. If you need to download Firebird installers, go direct to sourceforge.
Hello,
I’d like to announce the first public release of fbclient, a binding of the Firebird client library to the Lua language, that is, a collection of pure Lua modules that allows you to connect and execute queries against the Firebird Relational Database.
Project website: http://code.google.com/p/fbclient/
From Monty (MySQL original author) blog:
As I already blogged before, a fork is not enough to keep MySQL alive for all future, if Oracle, as the copyright holder of MySQL, would at any point decide that they should kill MySQL or make parts of MySQL closed source.
Firebird is trully *open* (in all aspects). Nobody owns Firebird, nobody can buy it, nobody can close its sources, nobody can charge for it! So, if you are using Firebird, you don’t need to have such worries.
Whether you want to learn how to efficiently import data into Firebird, or you wonder if it is worth upgrading to Delphi 2010 for “routine” tasks, this article will give you some food for thought.
In particular, this article explores the use of Delphi and the open-source relational database system named “Firebird SQL” to load and analyze web traffic logs. Along the way, the size and performance of EXEs compiled with Delphi 7 versus Delphi 2010 are compared, plus the speed of Firebird 1.5 versus Firebird 2.1 and four common Firebird data access components are measured.
Read full article here.
