MacPro using Firebird
It seems that MacPro Office Manager uses Firebird as its backend database.
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!
Open-source bug hunt results posted
Coverity Inc. of San Francisco has released the results of a Homeland Security Department-funded bug hunt that ranged across 40 popular open-source programs.
[Ed: Claudio Valderrama already posted comments about the Firebird results here.]
Language Survey results
Today we are closing the “What is you main language used with FB?“. The survey got 1,268 answers, and the final result can be viewed here.
Delphi is the winner with 65% of the votes, followed by Java and PHP (both with 7%) and C# with 6%.
Now you can vote in our new poll (check it at the sidebar).
“Free” Databases: Express vs. Open-Source RDBMSs
The article gives general overviews of many free and open source databases. Firebird is among the listed SGBDs.
FBReplicator 4.1 released
For those who are interested, FBReplicator has received an update to fix a few small bugs and enhance the GUI on the Replicator Manager. See www.meta.com.au for more details. Regards,
Alan McDonald.
Improved remote protocol
From Dmitry Yemanov – The remote protocol has been slightly improved to perform better in slow networks. In order to achieve this, more advanced packets batching is now performed, also there are some buffer transmission optimizations. In a real world test scenario, these changes showed about 50% less API roundtrips, thus causing about 40% less TCP roundtrips. Hopefully, this is an improvement some our users could benefit from (mostly it should affect over-the-internet database access).
This work has been committed into the HEAD branch to be included into the next Firebird version. Further protocol improvements are also planned.
Subscriptions to FDD are online
Brazilians who want to participate in the 3rd Firebird Developers Day, to be held in Piracicaba – SP – Brazil in 29/July, can now make their subscriptions online in the conference site.
Morfik on ZDNet
New SQL functions
From Dmitry Yemanov – Implementation of a new aggregate function LIST has been committed into the HEAD branch. It’s one of the remaining changes that weren’t ported from the Yaffil codebase yet. There are other built-in functions to port, they will be discussed in firebird-devel later this week.
Firebird mentioned in two articles
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.