CodeGear sold to Embarcadero
Today was announced that Embarcadero is buying CodeGear (Borland division responsible for programming tools, including Delphi and InterBase).
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird 2.1 guide for Ubuntu 8.10 Hardy Heron
Here is the new guide for installing firebird 2.1 and flamerobin on the ubuntu hardy heron and can be used for other releases (gutsy/feisty/dapper/intrepid ibex)
Firebird Data Wizard 8.4 released
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 8.4, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
New version features:
- Now it is possible to create a system scheduled task or convert a task created in Data wizard to system one.
- Command line options have been implemented.
- Since this version each task is displayed as a separated icon in the system tray when executing.
- PHP Generator: a lot of new features. See full press-release for details.
- Data Pump: now you can execute custom SQL scripts after connecting, before data importing and after pumping.
- ASP.NET generator: since this version it is possible to specify a custom connection string.
- All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.
There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.
Ubuntu ported to ARM – just in time for testing firebird arm port
A Nokia-sponsored project is porting Ubuntu Linux to the ARM architecture.
DBX4 Driver for Firebird Database
Dmitry Yemanov will be speaking at FDD
Dmitry Yemanov will be speaking at the Firebird Developers Day. This is the first time Dmitry is coming to the Brazilian conference. Holger Klemt (HK Software/IBExpert) and Dmitri Kouzmenko (IBSurgeon) are the other international speakers that will be (once more) speaking in FDD. The one-day-conference will be held in Piracicaba-SP, at 19/July, and is organized/promoted by FireBase.
Firebird 2.1 for Gentoo released
Lucky situation
I’m in the extremely lucky situation that I’ve just started a brand new project, in which I can choose technology. A part of the project is to replace an old Web Project written in Delphi 5 ! and a larger part is going to be new. The main bulk of the project is going to as a web application run on portable barcode readers in a production enviroment. Speed is important.
Firebird 2.1 RPMs for Fedora
Firebird 2.1 RPMs for Fedora 8 and 9 distributions are available from tigro repository, both for i386 and x86_64, thanks Arkady Shejn.
Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL – time for alternatives like firebird
“From the MySQL User’s Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base.”
Read the rest of the article on slashdot
There are many posts about firebird too
Also another interesting blog about this community split