[Quoting from this article where firebird is mentioned http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1781895,00.html]
For instance, our product, Vault, stores all data using Microsoft SQL Server. Some people don’t like this. We’ve been asked to port the back end to Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Firebird. This issue is in our bug database as item 6740. The four questions would look like this:
From the Site of the day department here is the firebird dedicated site in china www.firebird.net.cn/
[Ed : you will need the babel fish maybe ]
Warning : they are for documentation contributors not for distribution or end users (If you spot mistakes contact the firebird-doc team )
This was tested on the Ubuntu Dapper Drake (that will be released this summer)
I assume you have installed the g++ compiler (with apt-get or synaptic)
download the Firebird 2.0 RC 2 kit from the nearest mirror
As you know from pervious article Lucene.net can be used with firebird, if you know some C# or have documentation fixes (spell checking etc) please give an hand to help the project
As you may know, I am currently the only developer working on it. I need and welcome help to finish it off. Also,
Lucene.Net needs committers. To become a committer on ASF, you can start by reading: http://incubator.apache.org/learn/newcommitters.html So please, if you want to see Lucene.Net move to the next stage and even graduate from incubation, do your part; you can start by looking at the current code and comment on those lines with “Aroush” in them.
Firebird V2.0 Release Candidate 2 Windows builds are now available for download.
After investigating my options for some time I finally decided to write my own
replication engine for Firebird (from scratch). FiBRe came closest to my needs,
but it’s requirement that all tables have column named ID simply doesn’t fit.
Windows (setup & zip), Linux (gtk1 &. gtk2), Mac OS X and source packages are available for download. Read more here, changelog included
DotLucene is an open-source search engine library for .NET. There is now set up a demo site (damnfastdotlucene.org) that tests DotLucene performance on quite a big set of documents
[ED:Lucene.net index can be stored in firebird database]
I have created an Firebird Live CD by adding an firebird-super-server and flamerobin packages.
Here is the small howto.
ps: latter i will upload the iso on the sf.net
