Firebird related news
O servidor onde o site da FireBase estava hospedado mudou, e com isso o IP também foi alterado. Quem estiver com dificuldades para acessar o site, favor atualizar o cache de DNS.
In English:
FireBase, major Firebird information portal in Brazil, has been moved to a new server. Please refresh all the DNS cache to be able to access the site.
The thread is on joelonsoftware.com and the question is about open source databases :
Quick issue, everyone. My company currently uses SQL Server, but we’re going to look at open-source databases because of MS’s crooked licensing rules (to be honest, they only have one SQL license, and are running it on a two-processor machine). They don’t want to shell out the extra $6,000 for another one, and I don’t blame them.
Article in Spanish
http://www.llodra.es/archives/50
Here is the question on Firebird-Support group
> How did port 3050 get selected as the “gds_db” service port. Was it
> chosen arbitrarily or is there some interesting story behind it? Maybe
> Jim Starkey’s phone number in Groton? 🙂
No story there at all. It was just a number that nobody else seemed
to be using at the time. And don’t ask me to remember a 25 year old
phone number … I barely remember my current number!
Cheers,
Ann
i would like to show you how hard the Core Developers are working (as if you don’t know that already …).
A little graph for you ….
or if you want to full 263 Character URL
UVdata A/S in Denmark has become a FF’s gold sponsor. Thanks, Jan Gaardboe Jensen and team.
FirebirdNews desires to all its visitors a very Happy New Year!
Go Firebird!
Sriram Balasubramanian (InterBase R&D engineer ) wrote a “congratulations” post in his blog for Firebird’s “SourceForge Project of the month” nomination.
New Year did not come yet, but we are planning new seminars for the New Year.
Now we’d like to invite German developers to our free seminar in Munich, Germany, Jan 24.
Agenda:
– New in Firebird 2.1, Vladislav Khorsun, developer Firebird
– Fast Reports Business Intelligence-Lo¬sungen fur Entwickler, Michael Philippenko, CEO Fast Reports
– Datenbankkorruptionen beheben, Dmitry Kuzmenko, CEO IBSurgeon
– Fast Reports neue Produkte und Funktionen, Alexander Tzyganenko, CTO Fast Reports
– Optimierung von Firebird-Datenbanken, Dmitry Kuzmenko, CEO IBSurgeon
Seats are limited, please register now:
http://fast-report.com/en/subscribe_seminar.html
FireBase online poll (with almost 1,000 votes) shows the following results:
1.5x [50%]
2.0x [36%]
2.1 [12%]
1.0x [2%]
Poll question is: What is the most recent version of Firebird that you are using?
