Oracle licenses Open Invention Network patents
I guess patent “protection” apply to firebird too
Oracle has signed a patent agreement with the Open Invention Network (OIN).
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Delphi For PHP Released – firebird related article on slashdot
Here is the original article and the interbase/firebird mention
Codegear (now a subsidiary of Borland) has just released version 1.0 of Delphi for PHP, a RAD development environment (running on Windows) that produces standard PHP code. It features a large set of built-in components, including ones that use AJAX for database access; and Codegear is encouraging users to develop their own components. The framework, VCL for PHP, is open source, and documentation follows the PHP model. Initial database connectivity is for MySQL and Interbase (Codegear’s commercial database that spawned the open-source Firebird), but more are promised.
The Python Papers , Volume 2, Issue 1, 2007
This is the complete issue containing Python User Group highlights, interviews, more on coding idioms, and an academic paper on the Firebird Database. (Revision 2)
libgda/libgnomedb version 3.0RC 1 have been released.
After a lot of bug fixes and cleanups, I’m pleased to announce that Libgda and Libgnomedb have reached a point where the API and ABI are frozen for the upcoming 3.0 release. This new upcoming version is a complete overhaul compared to the previous 1.2.x versions (the jump to 3.0 is due to a shared libraries versionning). The sources can be downloaded from GNOME servers.
Delphi for PHP – First impressions
Myles Wakeham wrote about Delphi for PHP and firebird issues:
Well I received my downloadable Delphi for PHP today. I haven’t had a huge amount of time to play with it, but there are some very impressive features, but a couple of ‘critical’ missing features for me.
More firebird ports
In the following months I’ll try to port firebird to all architectures
currently supported by Debian.
Backup remote DB locally – tip of the day
By default, Firebird stores backup files on local disk, but using GBak you can use something like the following to backup a remote database, locally.
Delphi on Rails?
The developers who brought us Delphi, that Ferrari of Integrated Development Environments, are entering the dynamic language tools race, and this time they are sporting Ruby red.