Sun buys MySQL
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL. More information here.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guides to Firebird 3, 4 and 5. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
FireBase site moved to a new server
O servidor onde o site da FireBase estava hospedado mudou, e com isso o IP também foi alterado. Quem estiver com dificuldades para acessar o site, favor atualizar o cache de DNS.
In English:
FireBase, major Firebird information portal in Brazil, has been moved to a new server. Please refresh all the DNS cache to be able to access the site.
Open-source security moves to next step
More about Coverity tests.
Survey about the 5th FDD
Only for Brazilians and portuguese speakers people:
Convidamos todos aqueles que tem interesse de participar da quinta edição do Firebird Developers Day a responder uma breve pesquisa on-line, para que possamos adequar cada vez mais o evento aos interesses dos participantes.
New Gold sponsor
UVdata A/S in Denmark has become a FF’s gold sponsor. Thanks, Jan Gaardboe Jensen and team.
Marco Cantu blogs about CG and FB
Marco has expressed his opinion about the actual relationship between Borland/CodeGear and Firebird in his blog:
As Carlos Cantu noted, it is very relevant that one of the InterBase engineers (Sriram Balasubramanian) blogged his congratulations. This gives me a good chance to reiterate something I mentioned many times on my blog, my hope that CodeGear (and the Delphi team in particular) will consider Firebird as a partner and not as a competitor of InterBase (the project Firebird was spinned off with Borland/Inprise original blessing). In my opinion, the key priority is to fully support Firebird in dbExpress with a specific driver, but official IBX support will also be nice to have.
Happy New Year!
FirebirdNews desires to all its visitors a very Happy New Year!
Go Firebird!
CodeGear sends congratulations to Firebird
Sriram Balasubramanian (InterBase R&D engineer ) wrote a “congratulations” post in his blog for Firebird’s “SourceForge Project of the month” nomination.
FB versions usage in Brazil
FireBase online poll (with almost 1,000 votes) shows the following results:
1.5x [50%]
2.0x [36%]
2.1 [12%]
1.0x [2%]
Poll question is: What is the most recent version of Firebird that you are using?
Firebird 1.5.5 is Released
The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird 1.5.5. This bug-fix release adds no new features but addresses a few bugs and security issues that have turned up in the 11 months since v.1.5.4.