Author: Artur

“German software giant SAP AG has agreed to acquire database software maker Sybase Inc. in a deal worth $5.8 billion, stepping up its rivalry with Oracle Corp.”

Short story on The Wall Street Journal.

.. mentions Firebird as one of the Top 25 Projects of the Month

Sourceforge.net Update is a monthly electronic newspaper from sourceforge. It keeps you update of the changes inside sourceforge, and many other interesting information. It always ends with a list of 25 projects that are “under radar”.

This month, Firebird is on this top 25 list, next to other well know open source projects, such as Azureus, phpMyAdmin, 7-Zip, Webmin.

Features like automaticaly speech to text translation, SMP support up to 1,500 CPUs, built-in OCR UDF’s, embedded browser, integrated email server, IPv12 support, GPS-ready, and all new MSDOS 6 support are among the new things to be released in FB 2.666.

A Release Candidate version is expected in 1 week.

The Core developers team also have grown a lot with the hire of 35 new developers to work full time for Firebird.The Firebird Project is having some problems coordinating such a large team, but they are sure that when the beer finish everything will be up and running.

“We are so excited about this great news, that we are thinking about changing the name to “The Project”, just after the acquisition of Oracle (target to the last quarter of 2008).”

Congratulations, Firebird Team !