Infovark is using firebird
We’ve been using Firebird as infovark’s SQL database for several months now.
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Lucky situation
I’m in the extremely lucky situation that I’ve just started a brand new project, in which I can choose technology. A part of the project is to replace an old Web Project written in Delphi 5 ! and a larger part is going to be new. The main bulk of the project is going to as a web application run on portable barcode readers in a production enviroment. Speed is important.
Advangage/Disadvantage about embedded database engines
I want to implement software which needs a embedded database engine. I search this forum so many times. The language I must use C++. Then I have two methods to choice
Firebird 2.1 is Released
The members of the Firebird Project team are proud to announce the release of Firebird 2.1, a full release containing many sought-after new features including database monitoring, global temporary tables, database triggers and dozens of new internal functions.
This release includes kits for 64-bit Windows and all MacOSX environments and constitutes our largest-ever platform coverage. Enjoy! Details Downloads
Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL – time for alternatives like firebird
“From the MySQL User’s Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base.”
Read the rest of the article on slashdot
There are many posts about firebird too
Also another interesting blog about this community split
LAMP SCHMAMP
PLEASE let the LAMP acronym die already! There are so many alternatives in Free Software land.
L: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, several more.
A: Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, dozens more.
M: MySQL, PostgreSQL, FirebirdSQL, SQLite, and more…
P: PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Groovy, Scala, Tcl, Smalltalk, Lisp, the list can go on forever.
original post was on lwn.net
OpenDBX 1.3.7 released
Release focus: Major bugfixes
phpBB 3.0.1 released
phpBB 3.0.1 has just been released, this means some small bug fixes, which were of course necessary in order to ensure the continuous stable release rate of phpBB. The official release topic is posted below.[Ed: phpbb3.0.x runs on firebird > 2.0]
Firebird RDBMS at russian conferences
In the second part of April there are 3 conferences in Moscow, Russia, where will be Firebird sessions
PC factory test tool runs Linux/PHP and firebird
The appliance is based on an unspecified hardware platform from MBX running Gentoo Linux, the Apache web server, PHP scripting, and the open source Firebird SQL database.