IBPP/Flamerobin license hopefully solved
The IBPP License 1.0 had problems with Debian. Looking at http://www.ibpp.org/license however I see a different license.
To me it looks like Expat, with the following changes:
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Idea for one application build around firebird
Seems to be the blog of the day :
More & more I want to write the issue/requirements tracker that has been in my head for so long. I would write it in either java, php or Ruby on Rails. I would put an embedded firebird database behind it. Now, I have to get people to believe that they should let me do this at work. I am too damn old and tired to do it at home in my oh so copious spare time.
[ED: He does have other nice blog posts with firebird]
php class to use with firebird database
Source code example is located on DevFactory.com.mx
Then they laugh at you
Not only does open source Firebird-Fyracle have a catchy name and almost match Oracle on the 6 well known “gold standard key database evaluation mapping criteria”, but it is “just as idiosyncratic”, AND you can run “Compiere v2.5.3c” ( almost )!
Here is the response from shocked oracle users after they found Firebird/Fyracle (Denial Mode)
The Firebird ADO .NET Data Provider 1.7.1 for .NET 1.1 and Mono 1.1 is available for for download.
Download information can be found here ·
Firebird COBOL users united
Stephen Boyd asked:
“Before you all go eeeewwww yuck who still uses COBOL, the answer is
lots of us. My immediate goal is to try to find out if there are many
Interbase / Firebird users who still use COBOL like we do.
[ED: you can read the full thread on Firebird-General mailing list]
SAS software and Firebird Vulcan
“This paper describes the architecture and requirements for implementing a relational, transaction-based storage mechanism in SAS software, a commercial business intelligence product that uses the Vulcan code base in an embedded mode.”
By Tom Cole, Platform R&D, SAS Institute Inc. (From the Firebird Conference Prague 2005). (.zip of two pdfs). Right click and save as to read.
ibpp.org – new site , new license , new version
The site ibpp.org has, again, changed.
Change of software (DokuWiki instead of MediaWiki) and change of hosting servers.
Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary
Firebird is included in the list of debian packages that must be fixed so it can be compiled without errors with GCC 4.1
New Firebird Developers’ Journal Starts
Dmitry Yemanov launches a Developers’ Journal where you can catch the latest comments from the core developers about how things are going.