How much would be the cost to develop Firebird from scratch?
Check this analysis of Firebird done by ohloh. It estimates that the cost to hire a team to develop Firebird from scratch would be $37,373,773.
Author: Cantu
I'm the owner of the www.Firebase.com.br site and the author of the books Firebird Essencial, Firebird 2 and Migration Guide to Firebird 3. Loving Firebird even before it was born!
LinuxInsider article mentions Firebird
“Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use” mentions Firebird, although has some interesting (to not say funny) mistakes, like:
the Firebird Project is based on the source code released by Borderland Software, formerly known as “Imprecise“, in July of 2000.
Should we mention this as “joke of the day”? 🙂
FB 2.1 new internal function list
Are you curious to see all the new internal functions that will be available in the shortcoming FB 2.1? If so, take a look here. Most of the functions were ported from Yaffil to FB 2.1. It seems that the porting job was finished by Adriano a few days ago. That’s really good news 🙂
CoreLab Data Access comps supports FB 2
Core Lab Software Development has released new versions of the Data Access Components product line with support for Firebird 2. Read more here.
Tableau Version 3.0 supporting Firebird
Tableau Software, the global leader in visual analysis software, today launched Tableau v3.0, the most powerful and easy to use data analysis software available. It is designed for information workers in all job functions and industries. Tableau v3.0 enables people to summarize and explore their everyday data with an intuitive interface that generates crisp visual displays.
Read more here.
Firebird listed in Brazilian magazine
The Brazilian magazine “Pequenas empresas & Grandes negócios” (something like Small enterprises & Big business) reviewed a few databases in its March/2007 edition. Firebird had an 8.0 but stayed behind PostgreSQL (8.7) and MySQL (8.5). It doesn’t say what was the criteria of analysis used in the ranking. One more time, the lack of default graphical administration utility was listed as a bad thing.
Info Exame reviews FB 2
Info Exame is a major computer magazine publication in Brazil. In the April edition, they published a 2 pages review of FB 2. Although it is not a deep review, it is a good propaganda for FB. The “cons” listed are mostly lack of default graphical interface (maybe its time to include FlameRobin in the default installer?) and lack of good documentation.
Want to run WordPress with FB?
Wp-db is the mini database abstraction layer for WordPress. It allows you to run WordPress on various database. Read more here.
Posts about Morfik mentions Firebird
The post “A Patent On An Ajax Generator? Ah, That Could Be Important” in InformationWeek Weblog talks about Morfik and mentions Firebird.
Finding a good password
I found an interesting password generation (online) tool that even says how much time it will take for people break the generated password 🙂 It may help to define good passwords for Firebird users accounts.