oracle licensing too expensive for oracle community site
from this thread on the orafaq forum:
“There is no way we would be able to raise the money required to buy a commercial Oracle license.”
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of Firebird
Hello Firebird Developers,
I’m the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does static source code
analysis to look for defects in code. You may have heard of us or of our
technology from its days at Stanford (the “Stanford Checker“). The
reason I’m writing is because we have set up a framework internally to
continually scan open source projects and provide the results of our
analysis back to the developers of those projects. Firebird is one of
the 32 projects currently scanned at:
Flamerobin 0.6.0 is released
ibWebAdmin 1.0.1 released
The changes in this release are as follows:
Connections to Firebird 2 database servers are now supported, a Czech translation was added, and this maintenance release fixes the few minor issues reported over the last few months.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ibwebadmin/
Read more
The Firebird 2.0 RC1 tag is going to be set this week – Feature Freeze
The RC1 tag is going to be set this week. If anybody has pending commits,
please do them. If anyone has some work in progress regarding non-regression
bugfixes, please complete it ASAP. Starting with the next week, only
regressions will be fixed.
Dmitry
[Ed: so firebird 2.0 rc1 will be here soon , and only bug fixes will be allowed]
Open Development – Firebird related
Gianugo kicked off good discussion on a mailing list (message reposted to the
Feather blog). It gets at an idea that has been floating around for a
good
while, that Open Source does not equate to Open Development, and
while the difference is glaring obvious to folks who have been
around open source for a while, it is not so to many others.
Smart moves by MySQL AB
Now there seems to be a clear response. MySQL has hired former Firebird developer Jim Starkey and MySQL has a new CTO: Taneli Otala – read Kaj Arnö’s interview with Taneli.
The final statement on this interview declares a clear goal: “Definitely. I want to be part of the team building the world’s best database!”. The times when MySQL targeted itself mainly to drive small and medium web based applications are definitely over!
Read more on db4free blog
php5 and firebird 1.5 on debian or ubuntu
Darren wrote an tutorial about installing php5 and firebird 1.5.x on debian/ubuntu
Here is the full text on firebird-php mailing list
LinuxQuestions.org Podcast – Mentions MySQL’s acquisition of Netfrastructure
The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include LQ conference updates, 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, your feedback on LQ, the LQ Articles and Editorials section, the MySQL acquisition of Netfrastructure, more on the MySQL, Oracle, SAP rumors and the TCO study sponsored by OSDL and Levanta.
–jeremy
ED:Members Choice Awards For Databases (will be published in 6March)
Firebird used in 1000+ schools in Flanders
If it’s interesting for Firebird & Turbocash:
All our applications run using Firebird, in 3-tier mode. The 2 flagships applications are:
– School administration software. – Used by 1000+ schools in Flanders.
– Accounting program. – Also used by 1000+ schools in Flanders, and by regular companies as well.