Intraweb Studio uses Firebird

IntraWeb Studio is a professional Content Management System (CMS). It enables you to edit and manage your website in a very efficient and cost effective way.
All of your files and documents for a web site are kept in a repository. The repository may be located on your development machine or on an external repository server (IWS Pro and up). The repository is implemented in an SQL based DBMS. Currently IWS supports FireBird, IWS Personal and Desktop edition use an embedded version of FireBird – no special setup is required.

FB in Word Community Grid

“World Community Grid’s mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals – like you – collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.” I just found a Firebird team on it.

New Firebird book

Firebird – Dicas de segurança was just released in the Brazilian market. The book, written in Portuguese by Luiz Paulo de O. Santos, gives to the reader tips about doing a secure instalation of Firebird as well using third party tools (like ZeBeDee) to run Firebird in a more secure way. Luiz was one of the speakers at the Firebird Conference 2005.

Firebird Coverity tests results

I’m publishing the results of the coverity tests ran against Firebird 2.0 at 6/March/2006. For those who doesn’t know what is this: some months ago, USA government sponsored some companies to find bugs in popular Open Source projects, in a way to make them more secure. Firebird was in the software list. Now the first results are being published.

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First results of Homeland’s sponsored tests

“The most popular open-source software is also the most free of bugs, according to the first results of a U.S. government-sponsored effort to help make such software as secure as possible.” – Read more here.

Firebird is in the list of the Open Source tested software. I plan to put some more information about this here in FirebirdNews as soons as I put my hands on it.

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