FBNews offline
The data center where the site is hosted suffered an explosion in the power room, and all the sites hosted there were offline for the whole Sunday and first hours of Monday. More information here. No information/data was lost.
Firebird related news
The data center where the site is hosted suffered an explosion in the power room, and all the sites hosted there were offline for the whole Sunday and first hours of Monday. More information here. No information/data was lost.
Comparing the performance of several operations in FB2.1, OraXE and SQLServerXE using the vendor specific .NET data access drivers, I discovered Firebird was about 3 times faster than the others which were both nearly the same speed.
Firebird 2.1 will be included by default in the next Ubuntu release named Intrepid Ibex that will be released in 30 October.
The other day another security issue (this sort of thing happens to the best of them) in Interbase that was fixed in January in Firebird already.
More rants on this page http://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/1118
Here is th url , also there are drivers for php and flamerobin package is included there
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/SRPMS/contrib/release/
Here is the Firebird 2.1 package for Slackware Linux
We have a firebird (the opensource SQL database) package in the
server:database buildservice project
(https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=firebird&project=server%3Adatabase).
Unfortunately, this package isn’t maintained since some time, which is a
pity, because the server:database repository is offered as a community
repository in YaST and is advertised as the “Latest updates for database
software including Firebird and MySQL”.
I have a 32 bit application that uses DAO to connect to an Access database. I need to upgrade the application to be true 64 bit (not WOW64). Microsoft does not offer a 64 bit version of DAO.
Thread continues here
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.631361
This link is for firebird nomination
This link is for flamerobin nomination
Last year Firebird was double winner of SourceForget Community Awards!
More Info: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=20018
Description: Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic (but it is NOT a clone!).
With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and so on…
Changelog: see http://gambas.sourceforge.net/changelog2.html